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1. 01:36 PM - Re: Top VS Rib Won't Fit (Bob Perkinson)
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| Subject: | Top VS Rib Won't Fit |
Jeff
>From the photos it looks like you have not fluted the rib. Get a flexible
metal ruler and eyeball the pre-punched holes. You might find that the line
of holes is not in a straight line but produce a slightly curved line.
Fluting the flange will draw the holes into a straight line and reduce the
overall length of the rib slightly.
Bob Perkinson
Hendersonville, TN.
RV9 N658RP Reserved
If nothing changes
Nothing changes
In the other picture, I have forced the rib inside the skin, and clecoed it
in all the way back to the aft spar, including the forward spar, except for
the holes in the tab. As shown, the tab had to be bent quite a bit to fit
inside, to where the hole in the skin is no where close to the mating with
hole on the tab.
To make it fit, it looks like I would have to flatten out the flanges of the
tab, then cut back on the tip to reduce the length, then trim the flanges
and re-bend them to make the tab narrower.
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=117768#117768
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