I started working on the forward fuselage sides even though I’m not finished with the rear fuselage. This is reducing the size of my pile of aluminum angle pieces I started making about a year ago and so far everything has fit nicely.
I had some question about fitting the F15-12 angle clip into the F14-12 seatbelt attach angle. The plans only showed a 1/8″ radius chamfer on the angle clip, making it impossible to nest into F14-12. After asking on the forum, it sounds like the aluminum angle that the seatbelt attach angle is made of originally had a 1/8″ radius instead of the current 1/4″ and it should be fine to grind the angle clip to 1/4″. I am happy with how well these pieces nested together as shown in this picture, and the grinding wasn’t nearly as tedious as I expected.
I had to bend two of these .060″ parts. I was not looking forward to it, but I was able to bend both at the same time on my 8′ brake with no problem at all. It was almost too easy.
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