Desert Rat
Well Known Member
I've been looking online for the last hour and while I see tons of beauty shots of finished empennage fairings, there aren't many of the screw layout under the elevators aft of the inspection cover.
The print for the RV7 has you drill out a longeron rivet that's common to the fwd flange of the aft double bulkhead. But there's a bolt and nut right behind that rivet, so there's not much room in there, plus, it would be nice to get that fastener a little further aft so that I don't have so much fiberglass aft of there just flopping around.
I found a picture from about ten years ago on somebody's build log where they put a screw in much further aft, but I didn't wade through the entire log to see if it worked for them. It looks to me like the rudder might hit it. My question is; has anybody gone that route and is there room back there for a nut plate and screw without the rudder hitting it?
I've attached a couple of pictures to make this a bit more clear. The photo is the one I found online, the print is from the RV7 manual and I've marked the plans location in red and the proposed location in blue.
I suppose I can hang the rudder back on tomorrow and figure this out, but it would be nice if somebody could save me the effort...
The print for the RV7 has you drill out a longeron rivet that's common to the fwd flange of the aft double bulkhead. But there's a bolt and nut right behind that rivet, so there's not much room in there, plus, it would be nice to get that fastener a little further aft so that I don't have so much fiberglass aft of there just flopping around.
I found a picture from about ten years ago on somebody's build log where they put a screw in much further aft, but I didn't wade through the entire log to see if it worked for them. It looks to me like the rudder might hit it. My question is; has anybody gone that route and is there room back there for a nut plate and screw without the rudder hitting it?
I've attached a couple of pictures to make this a bit more clear. The photo is the one I found online, the print is from the RV7 manual and I've marked the plans location in red and the proposed location in blue.
I suppose I can hang the rudder back on tomorrow and figure this out, but it would be nice if somebody could save me the effort...