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                           RV9-List Digest Archive
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                     Total Messages Posted Thu 02/05/04: 2
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Today's Message Index:
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     1. 01:48 PM - Re: fuel cap flange fit  (Terry Hobert)
     2. 09:46 PM - "Adjusting" the filler flanges.  (Rob W M Shipley)
 
 
 
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Time: 01:48:47 PM PST US
From: "Terry Hobert" <terhobey@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: RV9-List: fuel cap flange fit

--> RV9-List message posted by: "Terry Hobert" <terhobey@hotmail.com>

Paul,
Just position it to the best looking contour and mark for the first hole.  
Drill it and cleco and continue on.  I kept turning mine back and forth and 
wondering the same thing.  It has one way that is the best even though it 
doesn't look like it is perfect.  It comes out OK.

Terry Hobert 9A fuselage


>From: Paul Eastham <eastham@netapp.com>
>Reply-To: rv9-list@matronics.com
>To: rv9-list@matronics.com
>Subject: RV9-List: fuel cap flange fit
>Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 19:29:30 -0800
>
>--> RV9-List message posted by: Paul Eastham <eastham@netapp.com>
>
>Hi everyone,
>  I'm at the step where I need to drill the fuel cap flange to the tank 
>skin,
>and it really doesn't match the contour of the skin/ribs well at all.
>I've rotated it and found the existing bend in the cap but it is not 
>enough.
>Seems like it will look like a mess once they are riveted together.
>Pictures on the web look like a good fit...can anyone straighten me out 
>here?
>Thanks!
>Paul
>
>http://hmb.dyndns.org/~eastham/rv
>
>

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Time: 09:46:04 PM PST US
From: "Rob W M Shipley" <rob@robsglass.com>
Subject: RV9-List: "Adjusting" the filler flanges.

--> RV9-List message posted by: "Rob W M Shipley" <rob@robsglass.com>

Paul Eastham <eastham@netapp.com wrote -
 I'm at the step where I need to drill the fuel cap flange to the tank skin,
and it really doesn't match the contour of the skin/ribs well at all.
I've rotated it and found the existing bend in the cap but it is not enough.
Seems like it will look like a mess once they are riveted together.

Paul,
I had the same experience.  Not wishing to mark up the surface of the flange I
tapped them firmly with a block of 2 X 4 until the fit was good.  It proved straightforward
and caused no surface damage.
Rob
Rob W M Shipley
N919RV (res) Fuselage .....still!