Next work today is dimpling all the small parts from the forward fuselage : the armrests, the auxiliary bulkheads, the bagage side covers. There are some specific things to do : a nutplate here, a different rivet size there.

All the parts of the forward fuse having been fabricated its time to take all this apart to deburr, dimple, countersink, sand and prime everything.
After the disassembly, I begun taking of the blue plastic where work has to be done. I also began to deburr the parts that are made of thick aluminium and therefore have to "see" the bench grinder.



During this time, Sabine was deburring the smaller parts.
This picture is the five hundredth published in our "Building log"

I finished preparing the brake pedals, there was some countersinking to be done. I also drilled the holes for a nutplate on the forward fuselage gussets.

Today, I'm working again on the brake pedals. They now get installed on the rudder pedal tubes and the cylinders get installed to.
The method is decribed on a few websites and needs some careful adjustments before drilling. I still have to countersink some of the parts.
I finished my day by cleaning and reorganizing the workshop because the next thing that needs to be done is get the whole fuselage apart and deburr, dimple and prime all the parts.

Still fabricating the brake pedals. First all the parts have to be deburred and sanded, they are pretty thick aluminium parts with quite a lot of marks from the fabricating process. Then I assembled the four pedals (we will have dual brakes), being careful fabricating left and right pedals.



Then the side bushings are drilled to the auxilliary longeron in the forward fuse. A few holes are drilled to allow for the ruuder and brake pedals to be repositionned on the ground. On the picture you can see my today's blunder. The bushing should be aligned on the third line from the left and not on the other line. This would not be a problem per se, but unfortunately the holes I drilled interferd with some other hole on the longeron rending one of the position unusable. So I fabricated a new longeron.



Then the whole assembly is moved to the fuselage to install the center bushing. Here we see the center support which will be drilled to the firewall.



The support is now finished, on the right the clecos holding the support to the firewall. The support is also lightened by drilling three big holes.