My pneumatic 90deg drill from ATS arrived. Seeing how much 90deg drilling I will be doing in the next while I needed to pull the trigger on buying one of these. I didn’t waste time getting the step mounting blocks drilled to the baggage rib. The drill does an excellent job.
Now for the stressful part....drilling the mounting block to the side step. The reason why it’s stressful is getting the bolt hole in the correct location since the baggage ribs tend to bow a bit, and the only way to get them straight is to install the baggage floor. But I cannot drill with the floors on. So I ended up taking a bunch of measurements with the floors on...took the floor off, clamped some braces on the rib and verified measurements. Closed my eyes and started the drill location to give me a marker. Next I removed the assembly and then reassembled on the drill press. Drilled one hole on one side, flipped the assembly 180deg and drilled the opposite hole. The result is that the bolt fit is tight and perfect. A tedious process, but its done well.
