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<\/a>It’s a 1\/2″ bolt centered in a piece of fir 2″x4″, and I made four of them – one for each corner of the cradle. \u00a0The bolt head will rest on the floor, and the bottom nut will adjust the bolt up and down.<\/p>\nWith the fuselage upright on the cradle, I needed a way to level it from side to side and forward to aft to prepare for drilling the aft deck. \u00a0Being the obsessive engineer that I am, I wanted a way … Continue reading <\/a>They’re bolted in place with more 1\/2″ fasteners. \u00a0I used heavier hardware than\u00a0was probably needed, but I want to be able to use the same system to keep the fuse nice and level when mounting the wings so a little overkill is justified.<\/p>\n<\/a>With the jackscrews in place on all four corners, I leveled the fuse across the center section…the jackscrews made this really easy.<\/p>\n<\/a>Looks good…nice and level. \u00a0Amazingly, when I placed the level on the tailcone I found..<\/p>\n<\/a>..it’s level too. \u00a0This is A Good Thing, it means the fuselage has practically no twist, and\u00a0that all the work I did to keep the fuse level while riveting, really paid off. \u00a0The digital\u00a0level occasionally showed 0.1 degree off – still completely acceptable – but with a little tweaking I got it back to dead center. Very cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"