RV-9A: Seats and Seat Floors - 10/3/2009
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 Good morning, Mr. Sunshine!
This morning, on the way to the coffee maker, there was a pink glow throughout the interior of my home. I knew there had to be an incredible sunrise in the making. Sure enough, there it was.
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 Installed the nutplates on the F-742-L&R Aft Seat Floors
A whole of bending over going on.
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 Now to make the F-741 Tunnel Cover
The parts search is certainly getting easier. There just isn't that many parts left to dig through.
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 Placed the F-939 and F-940 Forward Seat Floors
The instructions say to "Fit and drill the F-939 and F-940 Forward Seat Floors to the seat ribs". That's really funny, especially since there's nothing but nutplate holes, fitted over pre-installed nutplates in the ribs, in these 2 pieces. What's to drill?
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 Made the F-741 supports for the tunnel cover
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 Marked the holes for drilling in the F-741 cover
Well, kind of. If you use the measurement on the drawing for the distance between the holes down the side, you will "overshoot" the runway. It's good thing I checked the angle supports against where the holes were "supposed" to be. You can see where the original marks for the holes in blue.
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 Making the bend in the top sheet of the F-741
I got out my brake that I used for the seat backs and made the small bend in the sheet. Harbour Freight special! Don't got one? Git one!
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 Time for drilling the top plate to the side supports
This was a little tricky, bending over and trying make that %^&* plate line up for drilling. So I decided to mark the two most aft holes onto the lower supports with a fine point sharpie. Then I took everything apart and drilled these two holes on my drill press. Then it was just a matter of putting it all back together, clecoing the back two holes and drilling the rest of the holes, except for forward most 2 holes. Those need to drilled with the F-741 cover removed.
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 Drilled all the holes in the F-741 cover
If I had drilled the 2 most forward holes, I would have messed up the forward floor panels. Best to do these holes separately.
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 Done!
I put some screws into the forward 2 seat panels and then drilled the holes into right panel using the F-741 cover as a drill guide. Tomorrow I will install a nutplate on this seat panel.
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