Shawn Li's RV-7 Construction Log

06-11-2012: 3 hrs

Drilled the remaining holes on the aft fuselage. After taking them apart, I found some holes on the tail cone and F711 bulkhead are elongated. I had to drill them to #30 and use AD4 rivets. One hole is so bad I had to put in a doubler.

The other problem I realized is that I forgot to rivet the F711A and F711B at the bottom using AD4 rivets. Because the bottom tabs are drilled, if I rivet now, the tab will more due to gap, and the holes will be offset. No big deal, I had to add some shim to fill the gap before I rivet them. I hate myself today, just create more work for myself. Structure wise, the repair should be ok. I need to run some numbers to be sure.

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