Worked on F-796 B,C,D, and made new F-713 longerons - 10 hours

Now that Van's has confirmed that it would be best that I made new F-713 auxiliary longerons, I now need to wait for new one's in order to move forward. Darn...Today is a holiday as well and I have both the time and the motivation to keep going.

I decided to at least start rough cuts to the F-796B angles and the F-796 C&D spacers. I won't be able to finish fitment of these until I get the new longerons in, but since I had all of the tools out. Why not get a jump on it.



Next I decided to make the spacers I need between the F-7101 gear attach web and the F-902 bulkheads.

I was still making really good progress and it was not even noon yet. I started thinking to myself. Why not just make the F-713 longerons. I have more than enough of the appropriate stock material. So I decided to bite the bullet and make them. The curve is easy enough to trace and cut out.

The time consuming part was to properly file down the web. It took a few hours but I managed to do a really nice job. By 6:00pm I was ready to start fitting them to the fuselage.

Learning from my previous mistake, I centered the line on the inside face of the angle. This time the fit around the F-902 bulkhead is excellent.

I managed to get it all carefully drilled through the engine mount bracket. Not a quick and easy process....slow and careful as well as tedious. But they are successfully replaced.