I'm feeling pretty dumb at the moment. I just laid out and trimmed the corrugated upper baggage bulkhead for my 9A. I match drilled the screw holes into it that connect it and the lower bulkhead. Great, this isn't bad at all...time to put the nutplates in place! I don't know where my brain was, but I grabbed my nutplate jig and proceeded to drill the first nutplate rivet holes into the corrugated bulkhead instead of into the 706 fuselage bulkhead where they belong. It wasn't until I pulled the jig off and started to move it to the next spot that my idiocy hit me.
So now I have a couple extra eyesore rivet holes in the corrugated bulkhead. I don't think it's a big deal, but I also don't want them staring at me every time I load baggage. I can't fill the holes with rivets because the part has to lay flush when it mates with the lower baggage bulkhead. I haven't gotten into any fiberglass work yet, so no experience there. If I were to overlay the holes with fiberglass (on the visible, forward side so the backing material doesn't make the parts stand proud?) and fill them from the back so they are flush, can the fiberglass be feathered pretty easily so that it blends with the sheet metal pretty well once painted? Any other obvious ideas I'm missing?
I like to create more work for myself. Keeps me busy.
So now I have a couple extra eyesore rivet holes in the corrugated bulkhead. I don't think it's a big deal, but I also don't want them staring at me every time I load baggage. I can't fill the holes with rivets because the part has to lay flush when it mates with the lower baggage bulkhead. I haven't gotten into any fiberglass work yet, so no experience there. If I were to overlay the holes with fiberglass (on the visible, forward side so the backing material doesn't make the parts stand proud?) and fill them from the back so they are flush, can the fiberglass be feathered pretty easily so that it blends with the sheet metal pretty well once painted? Any other obvious ideas I'm missing?
I like to create more work for myself. Keeps me busy.