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<\/a>Once the wall bottom was attached with screws, I worked my way up from the bottom, match-drilling the bulkheads through prepunched holes on the sides.<\/p>\nThe top of the wall requires a little more work. \u00a0The upper corners must be trimmed on an 8.5 inch radius, so I borrowed a tip from Mike Bullock and cut a template from stiff paper to lay out the cut line. \u00a0It was a little tricky tracing and cutting through the wall’s deep corrugations, but with a little filing and trimming they look fine.<\/p>\n With the corners radiused, I laid out and drilled the remaining wall-to-bulkhead screw holes and match-drilled the wall to the bulkhead. \u00a0Nothing too tricky here.<\/p>\n The shoulder harness restraint cables penetrate the bulkhead well, so I laid out and cut slots for the cables. \u00a0There are a couple of pieces of UHMW plastic that get fitted around these slots to provide a wear surface, so I trimmed and drilled them to the upper and lower walls.<\/p>\n I’ve had the baggage compartment bulkhead walls sitting around for several years, it was nice to finally break them out for installation. \u00a0Fitting the bottom bulkhead wall is easy, there are prepunched holes that match the platenuts previously installed on … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>For some reason, it was pretty motivational to see this bulkhead wall in place…makes the fuselage seem more “finished.”<\/p>\n<\/a>I broke out the #8 nutplate jig, drilled the bulkhead for nutplates, dimpled both the nutplates and mounting holes, and installed the nutplates.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>I’m saving the wear block final installation until the walls are painted. \u00a0I’ll probably do that sooner than later, since we want to see how our interior color choice (JetFlex WR “Pepperdust”) looks. \u00a0I can paint the wall parts, and if we don’t like the color, I can strip ’em down and find another color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"