RV-9A: Forward Section - 2/19/2009
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 Making the F-996C reinforcement angles
These angles provide added strength and a place for the wing tank attach bracket to bolt on to. Before making these guys, I checked a number of other builder websites and just about all of them had remake these parts over and over again. But I really didn't understand why until I did it for myself. I made two angles, both 5 3/4 inches long and drilled all the holes except the bottom one like the instructions said. Then when I tried to cleco the angle to the fuselage using the hole in the side skin the angle hole was off, WAY off. It was so out of alignment that I had to trash the angles and start over. After I made new angles, I used the holes in the skin as a guide to drill the holes in the angle pieces. Here in the picture you can see just how "off" the drawing is. Note: My camera has a goofy wide angle lens which makes the angle piece look bigger than the drawing, but it's not.
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 Here's the measurement between the holes in the skin
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 Here's the measurement between the holes on the drawing
To get this length, I used both the drawing lines and measurements on the drawing. Now I'm going to have to figure out whether the F-996B spacers I made are off as well and also try to figure out if the holes in the drawings are mis-marked on these pieces as well. Stay tuned...
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