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1. 05:32 AM - Re: baggage floor platenuts?? (Joseph F. Giallo, II)
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| Subject: | Re: baggage floor platenuts?? |
For what it's worth, make sure you put at least one of the corrugated
conduit runs in on each side of the tunnel under the baggage floors -
having to do this was the reason I had to remove the floors and replace
them.
Charlie England wrote:
>
> Yes, but drilling out pops & 'repopping' isn't anywhere near as time
> consuming is drilling out 2 rivets for each nut plate & then
> resqueezing 2 rivets for each nut plate if the floors come out.
>
>
> Don Hall wrote:
>
>>
>> Don't you still have all the pop rivets holding the floor down?
>> ******************************************
>> Don Hall N517DG (registered) rv7 fuselage
>> http://rv7.donka.net
>> ******************************************
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-rv7-list-server@matronics.com
>> [mailto:owner-rv7-list-server@matronics.com] On Behalf Of Charlie
>> England
>> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 2:47 PM
>> To: RV7A@yahoogroups.com; rv7-list@matronics.com
>> Subject: RV7-List: baggage floor platenuts??
>>
>> <ceengland@bellsouth.net>
>>
>> Anybody see any problem with riveting the platenuts to just the floor
>> ribs &
>> just the bulkhead, instead of riveting through the floor &
>> rib/bulkhead into
>> the platenut? The screws will still hold the edges of the outer floor
>> panels
>> when the center floor panel & the back wall are screwed in.
>>
>> To me it looks like a minimal loss in strength (if any) & a lot less
>> trouble
>> if the floor ever needs to come up.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Charlie
>>
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>
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