vinzer
Well Known Member
I recently received my fuse kit and continued on building my plane Finally!
During first steps I found interesting fact: some of my parts are already match drilled and some are not.
Yes I am aware of the fact that VANs is moving to the all match drilled parts and I was hoping to get these in my kit however it looks like I have a mix of match drilled and not match drilled parts. What I actually found is that parts manufactured (according to bar code label available on most of parts) before June 2020 are not match drilled while most (if not all) manufactured on or after June 2020 are match drilled.
Instructions which I have call for match drill to be done however I see that in fact it is only needed on some parts (where say #30 holes are still #31 sized, etc).
What I do (and hope this is correct aproach) is I am checking parts I work on and if they are all match drilled obviously I am ignoring instructions to match drill again (no point), however if I work with mix of parts I do match drilling always from the side of match drilled part. Means if I attach together two parts (non match drilled and match drilled) I do match drilling from the side of match drilled part.
Do you think this approach is safe ?
During first steps I found interesting fact: some of my parts are already match drilled and some are not.
Yes I am aware of the fact that VANs is moving to the all match drilled parts and I was hoping to get these in my kit however it looks like I have a mix of match drilled and not match drilled parts. What I actually found is that parts manufactured (according to bar code label available on most of parts) before June 2020 are not match drilled while most (if not all) manufactured on or after June 2020 are match drilled.
Instructions which I have call for match drill to be done however I see that in fact it is only needed on some parts (where say #30 holes are still #31 sized, etc).
What I do (and hope this is correct aproach) is I am checking parts I work on and if they are all match drilled obviously I am ignoring instructions to match drill again (no point), however if I work with mix of parts I do match drilling always from the side of match drilled part. Means if I attach together two parts (non match drilled and match drilled) I do match drilling from the side of match drilled part.
Do you think this approach is safe ?