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<\/p>\nFinished bolting and riveting the cover ribs to the bulkheads. Most of the rivets could be reached with the squeezer with a combination of longeron yoke and 3″ yoke. The others I had to set with offset rivet set. This was easier than I thought it would be as normally the offset set causes all kinds of issues.<\/p>\n
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Next the bearing braces need to be screwed in and riveted. The screws are quite hard to reach even with a stubby screwdriver and for some reason I didn’t have a spanner to fit the nut. Seemed wrong to be using an adjustable but it is all I had.<\/p>\n
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Finally, a few holes need to be reamed with either the .311 or .375 reamer on both bulkheads. I managed to do a couple with the pillar drill but the Forward Centre Section bulkhead with the cover ribs is impossible to get under my cheap pillar drill so I clamped it to the bench and very slowly reamed the holes. By lubing the reamer and inserting it into the hole and then using the drill very slowly, only a minimal amount of material was removed. Apparently Vans ream the holes so there should be very little material removed. I also stopped the reamer once it was through and then pulled it from the hole to prevent side pressure taking more material as it came out.<\/p>\n
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Section 26 complete! Now back to deburring and priming…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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