I'm curious if anyone else has needed a shim between the F-1040 upper fuse channel and the F-1069 fwd side skin and if you have any tips on how to do it if you did?
The WD-1002 upper firewall bracket was not welded with the correct alignment so the face of the channel does not match up with the flanges on the firewall. I've contacted builder support and was told to use a shim to bridge the gap so that the skin can make a nice transition to the firewall.
You can see in the pictures below that the face of the channel is offset inboard of the firewall flanges and is slightly rotated, so the shim I make will have to be wedge shaped so that it is thickest at the upper forward corner and will have to taper off towards the bottom and towards the back. This also means that the rivets will be going through the WD-1002 bracket at a slight angle and I'm not sure if that is something to worry about or not. It seems like that would cause the shop heads if the rivets to want to tip over.
The WD-1002 upper firewall bracket was not welded with the correct alignment so the face of the channel does not match up with the flanges on the firewall. I've contacted builder support and was told to use a shim to bridge the gap so that the skin can make a nice transition to the firewall.
You can see in the pictures below that the face of the channel is offset inboard of the firewall flanges and is slightly rotated, so the shim I make will have to be wedge shaped so that it is thickest at the upper forward corner and will have to taper off towards the bottom and towards the back. This also means that the rivets will be going through the WD-1002 bracket at a slight angle and I'm not sure if that is something to worry about or not. It seems like that would cause the shop heads if the rivets to want to tip over.