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Went to the EAA chapter 326 meeting last night. It’s a great group with something like 50 RVs being built, but it’s just so darn far away from my house. I went to something like 3 meetings last year.
Tonight I drilled the middle two forward floor stiffeners. (Edit 4/26/2005: If you’re using the Airflow Performance fuel pump kit from Van’s, make sure the pump base fits between the middle stiffeners. I had the stiffeners 1/8″ too close together for some reason. Or you can use the forward cabin cover to see how far apart to space the stiffeners.) I ordered a right angle drill attachment from Cleaveland last week and it showed up today, not a moment too soon. I needed it to drill the aft end of the stiffeners to the cover brackets. Cleaveland doesn’t include the right angle attachment in their standard tool kit, and I’ve gotten around it so far using the long bits or other work-arounds. I really don’t see how I could have drilled those holes without it tonight, though. The second picture shows the little joggle that needs to be filed in the forward end to clear the firewall angle, as has been documented on other builder sites.
I didn’t order Cleaveland’s whole right angle drill kit. I just ordered the attachment and one drill bit of each standard size (40, 30, 21, 19, 12, 10). The thing worked really well.
