Forward Fuselage Priming and Assembly - Part 3
While waiting for some help to complete riveting of the firewall assembly to the forward bottom skin, I decided to take care of assembling the left and right seat floor assemblies. These were very straightforward to put together - after making sure they were oriented correctly per the diagram in the plans. Seat floor assembly parts pulled from storage After deburring all the edges, there are a number of nutplate attach holes that needed to be countersunk and screw holes that needed final sizing. Nothing too complicated once I had determined which parts would be left and right, and oriented them correctly All nutplate holes final sized and countersunk as needed. Parts ready for priming. Seat floor assemblies primed and ready for nutplate attachment All nutplates attached to seat floors with the pneumatic squeezer Seat floor angles were also easily attached with the pneumatic squeezer, again making sure they were oriented correctly Next it was time to permanently attach the firewall asse...