RV-3 Progress report for the weekend ? we have a firewall! (Well, almost?.) Louise spent Sunday afternoon measuring, grinding, drilling, and clecoing to produce a very square firewall structure. Building a -3 is definitely an adventure made better by those who have posted their photos before on the ?net. Van?s drawing leaves out many details that have to be figured out by the builder, and I have no qualms in using the answers that others have come up with before. In this case, the corners would be a complete mystery unless you had seen one, or seen pictures of one ? but with that knowledge, they are a piece of cake. Louise is getting very good at precision measuring and laying out rivets, while I enjoy fabricating aluminum pieces from raw stock ? such as cutting the notches for the steel firewall mounts.
Here, Louise is hard at work making sure that the outside ?square? frame is perfectly aligned as she drills it to the stainless firewall:
And here is the structure all clecoed together, waiting for dimpling and riveting ? after a little more fiddling with the corners. Need to go look at those pictures one more time?.
Work continues!
Paul
Here, Louise is hard at work making sure that the outside ?square? frame is perfectly aligned as she drills it to the stainless firewall:
And here is the structure all clecoed together, waiting for dimpling and riveting ? after a little more fiddling with the corners. Need to go look at those pictures one more time?.
Work continues!
Paul