Aft seat skin prep
After having a tough time last night, tonight’s session went great. I started off by chipping away at the prep for the top skins. I deburred the J stiffeners for half an hour.
After that I did some fun stuff. I pulled out the aft seat skins and some hinge material that is used to attach the seat backs. I cut the hinge material into 15-1/2″ chunks on the band saw and had just enough. I pilot drilled the holes in the hinges to #40. I found it helpful to set up a little fence on the drill press to make sure I was drilling 1/4″ from the edge.
The next step was to figure out the placement of the hinges. The plans are a confusing mess of measurements, as they always are at first glance. I thought I had everything laid out just right, but a few of the measurements weren’t matching the scale drawing. That’s not a huge surprise, as sometimes the drawings are off by a little bit. And then I realized I mistakenly thought one measurement was from the center of some holes, when it was actually to the edge of the seat skin. After correcting that, everything lined up just like the drawing. I’m glad I found that!
I drilled the hinges to the seat skin on the left side and stopped for the evening.
