Hi All,
I know these kinds of questions are hard to answer but I didn't get any satisfaction from my call to tech support this morning. Perhaps one of you guys that have built past this point can help me.
Page 26-11 rev 3 shows a detail view of the F-01484 bottom skin. On the left and right edges of the skin are locations for 7 nut plates, 14 total. All the plans say at this point is to final drill the screw hole with a #19 bit. So far so good. The plans are silent about dimpling the screw holes afterward. I looked forward in the plans and the nut plates don't get installed until somewhere in section 29, but it still didn't say anything about dimpling the screw holes. At least not that I can find. Can anyone tell me if the plans eventually tell you to dimple these screw holes or is this one of those areas where you are just supposed to know that's what needs to be done? I hate making those kinds of assumptions because usually there is a reason the plans delay an expected step until later on.
And along those same lines, on the same page the plans specifically say NOT to dimple the four K1000-06 screw holes on the left and right side of the skin near the gear leg hole. Again that seems terribly odd to me on a plane that uses flush rivets and flush screws everywhere on the skins. Do those get dimpled at some point later on? I couldn't find any details on that either. I recall in the wing-walk area that you didn't dimple the skins because there was a doubler plate underneath and you countersunk instead for the rivets.
I really appreciate y'alls help.
I know these kinds of questions are hard to answer but I didn't get any satisfaction from my call to tech support this morning. Perhaps one of you guys that have built past this point can help me.
Page 26-11 rev 3 shows a detail view of the F-01484 bottom skin. On the left and right edges of the skin are locations for 7 nut plates, 14 total. All the plans say at this point is to final drill the screw hole with a #19 bit. So far so good. The plans are silent about dimpling the screw holes afterward. I looked forward in the plans and the nut plates don't get installed until somewhere in section 29, but it still didn't say anything about dimpling the screw holes. At least not that I can find. Can anyone tell me if the plans eventually tell you to dimple these screw holes or is this one of those areas where you are just supposed to know that's what needs to be done? I hate making those kinds of assumptions because usually there is a reason the plans delay an expected step until later on.
And along those same lines, on the same page the plans specifically say NOT to dimple the four K1000-06 screw holes on the left and right side of the skin near the gear leg hole. Again that seems terribly odd to me on a plane that uses flush rivets and flush screws everywhere on the skins. Do those get dimpled at some point later on? I couldn't find any details on that either. I recall in the wing-walk area that you didn't dimple the skins because there was a doubler plate underneath and you countersunk instead for the rivets.
I really appreciate y'alls help.