flyingtaran
Member
Hi All,
Just started looking at my first fuel tank and i've already run into an issue with the 712 Z brackets,
I marked and drilled the 1/8 hole in all 7, then the #12 hole in 6 of the brackets as outlined in the manual, clecoed six of them to the back of the spar and match drilled, then after removing them and attaching the nutplates using my nutplate jig I am having issues bolting the brackets to the spar and even putting bolts in the brackets, it looks as though some of the bolt holes in the brackets are slightly misaligned with the nutplates.
It was pretty tight to get the bolts in the #12 hole before attaching the nutplates.
Should the holes have been match drilled slightly larger than #12?
I have heard mention of the checkoway method, should i research this more and start the brackets again?,
any help is appreciated
cheers
Taran
Just started looking at my first fuel tank and i've already run into an issue with the 712 Z brackets,
I marked and drilled the 1/8 hole in all 7, then the #12 hole in 6 of the brackets as outlined in the manual, clecoed six of them to the back of the spar and match drilled, then after removing them and attaching the nutplates using my nutplate jig I am having issues bolting the brackets to the spar and even putting bolts in the brackets, it looks as though some of the bolt holes in the brackets are slightly misaligned with the nutplates.
It was pretty tight to get the bolts in the #12 hole before attaching the nutplates.
Should the holes have been match drilled slightly larger than #12?
I have heard mention of the checkoway method, should i research this more and start the brackets again?,
any help is appreciated
cheers
Taran