I am waiting for word from Vans Support, but I think finally I made the mistake that is going to require some expensive re-ordering... Red arrow on the attached picture is the hole I drilled #19 by accident.
Veteran builders already know this, but building when you are tired and it is late at night is just begging for disaster.
Witness the mistake I made Friday night:
There is even a note which says to be careful drilling the middle nutplate screw hole. I believe what is going to attach to this is a fairing against the fuse and I assume that is fiberglass so I am unclear fixing this is going to work other than replacing skins, doublers, and the rib below.
The way I did this by the way, for the next person is that I had all the clecos in place and the way I had them in there made this look like it was just another cluster of three holes rather than a cluster of four holes. In other words the hole that was supposed to be drilled #19 had a cleco in it. I looked at it, and drilled the top most hole of the three that were exposed which was correct for a one leg nutplate. Only problem is that it is the top most hole of the FOUR holes not the three. So as you see in the diagram I am off by one hole. I really was on a roll before this, hopefully it is fixable in some other way, but I am at a loss as to how right now.
Jeff
Veteran builders already know this, but building when you are tired and it is late at night is just begging for disaster.
Witness the mistake I made Friday night:
There is even a note which says to be careful drilling the middle nutplate screw hole. I believe what is going to attach to this is a fairing against the fuse and I assume that is fiberglass so I am unclear fixing this is going to work other than replacing skins, doublers, and the rib below.
The way I did this by the way, for the next person is that I had all the clecos in place and the way I had them in there made this look like it was just another cluster of three holes rather than a cluster of four holes. In other words the hole that was supposed to be drilled #19 had a cleco in it. I looked at it, and drilled the top most hole of the three that were exposed which was correct for a one leg nutplate. Only problem is that it is the top most hole of the FOUR holes not the three. So as you see in the diagram I am off by one hole. I really was on a roll before this, hopefully it is fixable in some other way, but I am at a loss as to how right now.
Jeff
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