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Its about time for my conditional inspection and one of the items on my to do list is to replace the sheetmetal over the rear pit. Years of people getting in and out of the airplane has taken its tole on this piece of sheetmetal.
My question has to do with the combing or the rounded edge of the "hole". The front pit on my airplane has a really nice rounded edge all the way around. It makes the metal surrounding it very stiff which is really nice when you put your hands on it to support some of your weight when getting in and out of the airplane Take a look the first three pics below.
Currently, my rear pit just has a soft aluminum round piece of metal pop riveted to the sheetmetal. The last two pics show this.
The front and rear pits of my airplane are different in this area and it has always bugged me.
So, my question is, how do I make the rear pit like the front? I use to think that the builder rolled the sheetmetal over to make that edge, but I don't think that's what happened. I almost wonder if aluminum round stock was welded to the sheetmetal, but its hard to tell. Whatever they did, they did a good job. Any ideas on how I might duplicate this on the rear pit?
My question has to do with the combing or the rounded edge of the "hole". The front pit on my airplane has a really nice rounded edge all the way around. It makes the metal surrounding it very stiff which is really nice when you put your hands on it to support some of your weight when getting in and out of the airplane Take a look the first three pics below.
Currently, my rear pit just has a soft aluminum round piece of metal pop riveted to the sheetmetal. The last two pics show this.
The front and rear pits of my airplane are different in this area and it has always bugged me.
So, my question is, how do I make the rear pit like the front? I use to think that the builder rolled the sheetmetal over to make that edge, but I don't think that's what happened. I almost wonder if aluminum round stock was welded to the sheetmetal, but its hard to tell. Whatever they did, they did a good job. Any ideas on how I might duplicate this on the rear pit?
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