I’ll be traveling again next week, and I wanted to get as much of the fiddly little fit/finish stuff done as I could on the forward fuse. So…I started fabricating the F-793 B/C/D spacers and angle that form the attachment structure for metal brackets which support the forward end of each fuel tank. To start, I fabbed two sets of the flat spacers which rest against the F-902 bulkhead and fill the gap between the fuse and the F-793B angle. As seems to be the case with everything in the forward fuse area, the fit isn’t quite as depicted on the plans (thanks, Vans). I ended up having to round the edges of the spacers so that they nested nicely against the -902s.

Once they nested nicely, I stuck them together with some two-sided tape (thanks, Brad Oliver!) and stuck them to the -902 as well, then clamped and drilled the whole assembly. Vans has you pre-drill one of these holes, which I did on the first set of spacers I made (hmph) but the fit isn’t as good as clamping and drilling.