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Assembling left tank
5.0 Hours
Installing tank ribs into skin full size
Putting in the tank ribs. I clamp steel bars to each side of rib. Then put a 2x4 across two of the ribs, and squeeze the rib down with bar clamps. This takes a lot of force to get everything in the right spot
Support bars clamped full size
Here is the steel bars
Pushing rib into place full size
And here are the bar clamps doing their thing.
Drilling T-912 brackets to baffle full size
I didn't take a picture, but I drilled the T-911 stiffeners to the skin, then removed them. Next is place the T-912 brackets into place and drill them to the baffle. Takes a lot of looking at the plans and the pieces to make sure they are all the right way.
Baffle on tank assembly full size
Installed baffle into tank
Installing T-912 brackets to baffle full size
The T-912 brackets are riveted to the baffle temporarily. Here they are in place
Tank on spar full size
Now I put the tank assembly onto the spar, and cleco into place