Can anyone give a valid engineering reason why those tank/fuselage angles:
1) Are 3/16" thick rather than 1/8"?
2) Has a 1" hole edge distance for a 1/4" bolt?
Started to make the F-463 and it will have to be bent to sit flush with both F-405 and the fuselage.
Too late to do anything with F-405 as it's already riveted/prosealed to the tank, but I'm very tempted to use a 1" x 2" 1/8" angle for F-463. That would allow a 1/2" plus edge distance for the 1/4" hole in both brackets and make it easier to bend F-463. (Holes in F-405 brackets not yet drilled.) Also tempted to have the fuselage-side angle flange point aft rather than forward as in the RV-8.
Finn
1) Are 3/16" thick rather than 1/8"?
2) Has a 1" hole edge distance for a 1/4" bolt?
Started to make the F-463 and it will have to be bent to sit flush with both F-405 and the fuselage.
Too late to do anything with F-405 as it's already riveted/prosealed to the tank, but I'm very tempted to use a 1" x 2" 1/8" angle for F-463. That would allow a 1/2" plus edge distance for the 1/4" hole in both brackets and make it easier to bend F-463. (Holes in F-405 brackets not yet drilled.) Also tempted to have the fuselage-side angle flange point aft rather than forward as in the RV-8.
Finn
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