sgordon
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[Resolved] Should I use this skin or not?
While match drilling my rudder stiffeners to the skin, I encountered this hole pattern:
Clearly the prepunched hole at the 7" mark is about 1/8" out of alignment. Needless to say, the prepunched hole in the stiffener does not match. I spoke with a tech counselor at Van's, and their suggestion was to abandon the hole and drill new holes on eather side of the bad one. Later I can cover the bad hole with proseal.
Structurally that approach is sound. However, I wanted to put this out to you all to gague whether I should do as the tech counselor suggested, or push the matter and request a new skin from Van's. Clearly the mistake was made by Van's so I don't think I should have to pay for a new skin, especially since I'm within my 30 day window. I checked all of the other stiffener runs and this is the only misaligned hole I found.
What do you all think? Is this even going to be visible after paint?
While match drilling my rudder stiffeners to the skin, I encountered this hole pattern:
Clearly the prepunched hole at the 7" mark is about 1/8" out of alignment. Needless to say, the prepunched hole in the stiffener does not match. I spoke with a tech counselor at Van's, and their suggestion was to abandon the hole and drill new holes on eather side of the bad one. Later I can cover the bad hole with proseal.
Structurally that approach is sound. However, I wanted to put this out to you all to gague whether I should do as the tech counselor suggested, or push the matter and request a new skin from Van's. Clearly the mistake was made by Van's so I don't think I should have to pay for a new skin, especially since I'm within my 30 day window. I checked all of the other stiffener runs and this is the only misaligned hole I found.
What do you all think? Is this even going to be visible after paint?
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