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RV-9A: Project Entry

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If I would have taken a pic here, it would have been of the rut in the garage floor I made by walking back and forth from the fuselage the vise on the work bench, trying to put in the correct bends in this gusset (otherwise known as cuss-it). Turns out the suggested bend lines on the horizontal flange aren't exactly where the plans suggest. This is hard to explain. I just had to keep at it until it fit just right. After I got the bends like I wanted them, I clamped the gusset in place and drilled the horizontal holes, using the outside skin as drilling guide. Then, to get the vertical holes, I removed enough clecos from the outside skin to get my angle drill in place to drill the holes into the firewall angle piece.

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