N546RV
Well Known Member
I'll lead off with the important part: Seeing as how this concerns the center section, I'm going to email the factory regardless. However, since that means waiting until Tuesday or so, I'm also asking in here for a sanity check.
I started working on my center section today. Upon tearing open the plastic wrap containing all the center section bulkhead parts, I noticed that both bulkheads were damaged; one corner of the web on each one has been bent/curled a bit:
My gut says that since a) this bent area isn't near the wing spar attachment points and b) the bend isn't very severe or creased, that it should be OK to simply straighten the bent area and move on.
If possible, I'll wait until I get words from Van's before doing anything, but I don't want to get hung up on a nice long weekend like this, so I'm thinking that if I reach a point where the bends are an issue, I'll go ahead and straighten them and then get final approval from the mothership after the fact.
So basically, the sanity check is this: is there any reason that I should absolutely not try to straighten these bends?
Thanks!
I started working on my center section today. Upon tearing open the plastic wrap containing all the center section bulkhead parts, I noticed that both bulkheads were damaged; one corner of the web on each one has been bent/curled a bit:
My gut says that since a) this bent area isn't near the wing spar attachment points and b) the bend isn't very severe or creased, that it should be OK to simply straighten the bent area and move on.
If possible, I'll wait until I get words from Van's before doing anything, but I don't want to get hung up on a nice long weekend like this, so I'm thinking that if I reach a point where the bends are an issue, I'll go ahead and straighten them and then get final approval from the mothership after the fact.
So basically, the sanity check is this: is there any reason that I should absolutely not try to straighten these bends?
Thanks!