June 03, 2005

Side Skirting






NC drilled the rivet hole pattern in the side skirts and fitted them to the canopy frame. CNC drilling the hole patterns looks a whole lot better then my battling with a wandering drill point with a hand laid pattern.

I found particularly with drilling that cleco's that the occasional extra clamp is all that's needed to hold the sheet metal against a piece of wood. What I did here was drill a series of 10 holes, then I moved the piece on the jig and reran the program to extend the pattern... Do that a couple times and you have nice, evenly spaced holes.