Small Parts

Today we did some milling of small parts such as this clip used to connect the rudder cable to the rudder pedals. This shot is of a simple milling fixture featuring clecos to hold the part in place while the radius is milled. Also fabricated a matching splice plate to augment the C-704 plate which ties the two arching ribs at the back of the canopy together. Tooling holes in the arched ribs used to form the ribs at Vans interfere with the location of a pair of holes on the C-704 splice plate so I have put an additional plate in front of the assembly which also covers the small gap between the ribs. Also drilled the C-608 block which is attached to the arched ribs to hold the safety catch lever. The only other small part milling work left seems to be the parts to mount the canopy struts.