Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Anti-hangup brackets - 2 hours

Using the 1/2" wide x 0.032" thick strips that I cut yesterday. I went to work on fabricating the anti-hangup brackets that are used on the access plate. I wanted to make it usable and accessible (which the plans version isn't) if in the unlikely even I need to take the access plate off. Adopting a method used by the RV8 guys, I went for a spit design.
I needed to drill a mounting hole at the very bottom of the stiffener ring.

Then I cut and bent the brackets. I used scrap 0.025" strips to figure out the best method to bend all of the brackets. Nothing better than measure, mark, and bend with taped up hand seemers. Just with finger pressures, bends turned out nice. Had to make a few until I had the dimensions correct. But it turned out well.

Looks like it turned out pretty good. Happy with the result.