APilot4Fun
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After fitting the seat floors in the fuselage and match drilling to the seat ribs, I've come to installing the nut plates for the floor. Not finding a technique for doing this, I secured a nut plate upside down on the top of the seat rib over the hole with a Cleco from the underside and match drilled for the rivet locations. Seemed reasonable. However the Cleco holding the threaded part of the nut plate didn't hold the center of the hole. Once the countersunk rivets were installed holding the nutplate in its almost correct position, I found the screws were a fight to go in due to the slight misalignment of hole centers and it seems that I will need to open the affected holes slightly to let the screws go in without resistance.
I know what I did was the wrong technoque, but how should it have gone and will the slight opening on a few floor panel holes cause any trouble in the future?
-Craig
I know what I did was the wrong technoque, but how should it have gone and will the slight opening on a few floor panel holes cause any trouble in the future?
-Craig