Moving Forward.

With that assembly done, it was time to go back to the longerons.  Since it was actually above freezing by a degree or two, I decided to cut a bunch of the remaining angle. I planned my cuts so that I did all the long pieces that required the door to be open at the same time.  Then it was cut, cut, cut.

These two pictures are of the four longerons in the forward fuselage. They each have angle cuts at each end.

Then I cut all of the angle on another page.  These pieces still need additional work but they are at least all cut to finished length.

The last picture shows all the sizing cuts finished.  The first picture is my brain freeze moment of the day.  I planned to cut all of the 1”x1” angle first then change stock.  I just kept cutting and two pieces that should have been a different stock were now cut to length in the wrong angle.

No big deal, I have plenty of the 1”x1” and I might be able to reuse them anyway.  So I grab the 2”x2” and am marveling at the weight of this stock and cut them again.  The stop on the saw was still in place so it took all of a minute or two. I laid them on the plans and realized I hadn’t grabbed the 2”x2” angle, I had grabbed the bigger 2.5”x2.5” angle used on the page I was going to cut next. Doh!

So I grabbed the correct stock – and actually measured it and finally cut the pieces correctly. As it turns out, I will be able to use the two pieces of the large stock for pieces on the next page so I will have enough material.

When I cut the last four pieces I was very careful to double-check the material. They were from my last piece of 1.5”x1.5” angle stock that was shorter than it should have been because of a mistake I made on angle pieces somewhere else.  I cut carefully and got them out of the long piece with an inch to spare.  I believe I don’t need that stock anymore so I should be OK.