As for the little angle brackets for everyone here on out...STOP making
those pesky little things!. Make your channels one piece complete with end
flange. Measure length you need.. add an inch and a quarter. Cut... drill
relief holes 5/8" back from each end in bend radius... cut off flange.. bend
ends 90* to make your mounting flange with a pair of 3" wide flat face vise
grips or similar.
----- Original Message -----
From: <bransom@dcsol.com>
To: <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 5:39 PM
Subject: [rebel-builders] Fus-5 -- to split or not to split
The question of splitting Fus-5 or not came up recently. I not only
forgot
who raised it, but at the time, forgot about a small factor in that
decision. That is, the floor channels need to be tied in via L shaped
tabs
to the bulkheads, and for the forward most channels, that bulkhead is
really Fus-5. Connecting a channel or L-tab to the ] shape of a half
Fus-5
is at minimum, a good head scratcher.
I had split my Fus-5 pieces, so needed a sol'n to the above. I ended up
making a piece that essentially looks like floor channel material, but
fits
just inside the rear Fus-5, with the flat side facing backward (and flush
with the back side of my half Fus-5). This channel is held in by the
floor
skin rivets -- both inside ones and outside of course. In essence, my
half
Fus-5 is back to the cross sectional shape of a box, but the rear face of
it is .025. And, then it's simple to tie the L-tabs to that. Actually,
it's more like a pilates workout, but I figure this is good prep for when
I
need to wire behind that dashboard!
One more thing is that I had already used floating nutplates for the
landing gear leg attach through Fus5, so it doesn't matter if the channel
covers that hole from the back. I may drill a clearance access hole
anyway.
Ben/ 496R
bransom@ucdavis.edu
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