Desert Rat
Well Known Member
Working on the main bulkheads for my RV7 and all that's left is the nut plates that go on the upper flange of the fwd bulkhead.
The print calls out K1000-8 nutplates in 18 places, which matches the total number of holes pre-drilled in both bulkheads. No problem in the aft one, but on the fwd bulkhead the holes are barely too small for a #8 screw to go through. Like maybe they were reamed to somewhere around .155 at the factory or something.
Can anybody verify that I'm looking at the print right? The fwd bulkhead definitely gets nutplates for a #8 machine screw, right?
If I'm thinking right on this, I can just just ream these out to a #19 and call it good, but worried that I might have missed something here...
The print calls out K1000-8 nutplates in 18 places, which matches the total number of holes pre-drilled in both bulkheads. No problem in the aft one, but on the fwd bulkhead the holes are barely too small for a #8 screw to go through. Like maybe they were reamed to somewhere around .155 at the factory or something.
Can anybody verify that I'm looking at the print right? The fwd bulkhead definitely gets nutplates for a #8 machine screw, right?
If I'm thinking right on this, I can just just ream these out to a #19 and call it good, but worried that I might have missed something here...