Chapter 18 – SC-1 Captive Bolt

I started out today cutting a scrap piece of 1/16″ 2024 aluminum for the nutplate backer for the SC-1 captive bolt.  Not following the plans exactly as I’m using a nutplate for the SC-1 captive bolt (vs just a standard nut) so that I can install the captive bolt later on/whenever I want and still close up the hole on outside of the longeron/fuselage.  Then I can mount the SC-1 upper plate without worry of it catching the captive bolt at some point… that point being exactly as I’m working in the back seat with the canopy closed!

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The back side of the SC-1 captive bolt nutplate.

And the assembly sitting atop the longeron in the same configuration as it will be once all mounted.

I then cut a notch out of the outboard fuselage top edge to mount the SC-1 captive bolt nutplate to the exterior side of the longeron.

I then cleaned up the inside of the notch.

I then whipped up some epoxy and made up just a tad bit of epoxy-alcohol mix to swipe the hole to seal it… which keeps the bolt from eventually soaking up moisture from the wood and rusting.

I then floxed all 4 longeron-mounted C2-L hook bolts into place, this pic showing the aft two.

A bit later I floxed the nutplate in place.  Note that I also drilled 2 holes on opposite corners and floxed 3/32″ rivets into the longeron to ensure that the nutplate can be torqued.

I then left all the longeron-floxed stuff to cure as I got to work on the upper canopy frame SC-1 screw/bolts counter bores.  Here I’ve marked them.

And then notched them out with the Dremel Tool.

I also did some cuts on the plasma cutting table… some good, some not so good. I’ll try to report on all that within the next 2-3 days.

 

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