My QB Fuselage (40750) arrived a couple of weeks ago and I thought I´d share some feedback and some inventory discrepancies.
I´ve spent the past couple of weeks walking through the steps and I have currently made it through section 29. Generally speaking, the quality of the work is actually quite nice and the kit was well work the wait. Rivet work looks good and it´s generally deburred quite well.
I have found a few issues with their attention to detail.
These are the most concerning areas of workmanship:
28-4 Step #1) "Radius the corners and remove material from the middle of both control column mounts."(Remove hatched area).
This step was completely ignored. The control column mounts were deburred and simply bolted into position.
29-6 Step #7) "Draw a line on the flange of the F-10102A and B
Baggage Door Seal Angles 3/8" from the lower face of the F-1046-L Mid Fuse
Longeron as show in Figure 4.Remove the baggage door seal angles and trim
off the portion of the flange below this line. Note that once trimmed, the
flange on the F-10102B will be shorter than the flange on F-10102A"
This step was completely ignored. They just riveted the piece into
the airplane and left it. Now I´m trying to figure out the best way to trim the part per
the plans. I wish they had paid attention and trimmed the part before riveting, or not
riveted it at all.
29-9 Step #5) "Check the distance between the aft most rivet hole and
the aft end of the F-1013-L and -R Fwd Fuse Longerons per the dimensions in
Figure 3. Pull away the F-1070L and -R Mid Side Skins and trim the
longerons if necessary (or wait until fwd fuselage longerons are
disassembled, but don´t forget)."
This step was ignored and the longerons were just riveted to the
skin. They´re not slightly long, but way too long. So long that the left one sticks into
the baggage door opening. Now I´m drilling rivets in the skin/longeron and trying to
slide a piece of stainless between the two so I can cut them to the proper length
before riveting them again. If they wanted to leave them long, they should have
never riveted them.
Torque Wrench Use:
Upon checking the torque value of the AN-3 bolts, it´s quite obvious
that they don´t have one on the floor. All of the bolts are over torque by 2X.
I´m now backing off all of the nuts to neutral and re-torquing them to 25
inches.
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Other items of omission.....
25-5 Step #7) The Snap Bushings were not installed - And not included in
the kit.
25-6 Step #4) The Snap Bushings were not installed - And not included in
the kit.
25-6 Step #5,6,7) The UMHW plastic was not installed - And not included in
the kit.
27-6 Step #4) The Snap Bushings were not installed and not included in the
kit.
29-19 Step #8) The 5610-90-31 washers were not included in the kit.
28-6 Step #2) None of the F-1084B´s were shipped with the kit. The A´s are
riveted to the floor but they didn´t include the other half (B)´s.
30-4 Step #2) The AN3-20A´s for the steps was not included in the kit. They
shipped a 24 with a stack of AN960-10 washers.
Many other sections) They completely ignored dimpling/countersinking and
chose to install pan head interior screws as opposed the flush. I cannot speak to
the problems this might cause right now - but I´m sure I´ll have a better understand
of it as I go forward.
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Inventory omissions (summarized above):
SB750-10 QTY 8
SB625-8 QTY 2
UHMW-125X1/2X5 QTY 1
Washer 5610-18-31 QTY 2
F-1084B QTY 4
AN3-20A QTY 2
MS21042-3 QTY 2
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