Hey all,
I've spent the day poring over various threads and the instructions for my full RV10 milspec camloc installation kit, and there are a few hopefully obvious questions that I just cannot figure out. I'd love help with answers, or links to the resources that I wasn't able to find here.
1. I'm at the point now where it looks like I need to make the flanges that go around the full edge of the firewall. In many of the build logs I've found, it looks like folks are somehow installing the camloc receptacles BEFORE mounting the cowling. How is this possible? Don't you need to wait to match-drill the cowling before you can mount the receptables? What am I missing?
2. The kit comes with 36 fixed receptables and 26 adjustable (floating?) receptables. The plans make no mention of where to use 1 vs the other. Do folks have good guidelines here?
3. I also can't see how I'm going to use all of these receptacles. There are 62 total receptacles, and various pictures I've found show ~32 used for the firewall flange, and another 18 (9 per side) used for the cowl. That's 12 that are unaccounted for. Does milspec include extras just for fun?
Here's my current plan of action:
1. test-fit the top cowling and mark the split
2. cut my flanges out of .050" and get them match-drilled into the firewall
3. roughly lay out the locations of the cam locks every 3.75", making sure to align one camloc with what'll end up being the line of camlocs down the side of the cowl
4. drill holes for the camlocs with the small template, ie do NOT drill the center hole out for the receptacle yet
5. scallop between the camloc receptacles
6. rivet all the flanges on to the firewall now
7. WAIT and mount the actual receptacles etc for when it's time to mount the cowling for good.
Does this sound right? This still doesn't answer how many of the damned things I need, where to use fixed vs floating or what to do with all the extra camlocs.
Thank you all in advance - I'm sure this is documented somewhere, but heck if I could track it down.
I've spent the day poring over various threads and the instructions for my full RV10 milspec camloc installation kit, and there are a few hopefully obvious questions that I just cannot figure out. I'd love help with answers, or links to the resources that I wasn't able to find here.
1. I'm at the point now where it looks like I need to make the flanges that go around the full edge of the firewall. In many of the build logs I've found, it looks like folks are somehow installing the camloc receptacles BEFORE mounting the cowling. How is this possible? Don't you need to wait to match-drill the cowling before you can mount the receptables? What am I missing?
2. The kit comes with 36 fixed receptables and 26 adjustable (floating?) receptables. The plans make no mention of where to use 1 vs the other. Do folks have good guidelines here?
3. I also can't see how I'm going to use all of these receptacles. There are 62 total receptacles, and various pictures I've found show ~32 used for the firewall flange, and another 18 (9 per side) used for the cowl. That's 12 that are unaccounted for. Does milspec include extras just for fun?
Here's my current plan of action:
1. test-fit the top cowling and mark the split
2. cut my flanges out of .050" and get them match-drilled into the firewall
3. roughly lay out the locations of the cam locks every 3.75", making sure to align one camloc with what'll end up being the line of camlocs down the side of the cowl
4. drill holes for the camlocs with the small template, ie do NOT drill the center hole out for the receptacle yet
5. scallop between the camloc receptacles
6. rivet all the flanges on to the firewall now
7. WAIT and mount the actual receptacles etc for when it's time to mount the cowling for good.
Does this sound right? This still doesn't answer how many of the damned things I need, where to use fixed vs floating or what to do with all the extra camlocs.
Thank you all in advance - I'm sure this is documented somewhere, but heck if I could track it down.