Hello all! After many many months of deliberating, I can now officially say I am a builder. I inventoried my 7 emp kit over the weekend and got to work. Things have been going pretty well thus far, but I did have what I believe to be my first mistake.
I was trimming the angle for the front spar of the HS, and was careless in putting the stress-relief notches in. They are too far in from the edge.
The instructions do say that the dimensions of this notch are not critical, but they do need to maintain minimum edge distances of 2xD (which they do - it is 8mm from the nearest rivet hole).
Also I found that I did not like the way this came out when trimming the channel with snips; I'm guessing a bandsaw would have made a better looking result?
Thanks for allowing me to use the group's expertise in figuring out what to do here. Any feedback is appreciated.
I was trimming the angle for the front spar of the HS, and was careless in putting the stress-relief notches in. They are too far in from the edge.
The instructions do say that the dimensions of this notch are not critical, but they do need to maintain minimum edge distances of 2xD (which they do - it is 8mm from the nearest rivet hole).
Also I found that I did not like the way this came out when trimming the channel with snips; I'm guessing a bandsaw would have made a better looking result?
Thanks for allowing me to use the group's expertise in figuring out what to do here. Any feedback is appreciated.