I haven't had much time in the shop this past week, but I finally got back to it today. I'm putting the longeron bending aside for now. I may have found a local guy who has bending dies that I can borrow to make the longeron bends easier, so I'm going to move on to the tailcone for now. I clecoed the aft two bulkheads to the tail skin. This skin is very thick and stiff. The flanges on the bulkheads don't seem like they'll line up with the outside of a skin, but I'm going to leave them as is for now until I see how everything goes together.
The tailcone has to be laid onto saw horses to allow access for clecoing the bottom skins. I went to Harbor Freight and picked up three cheap saw horses. I set the bottom skin on the saw horses and clecoed the 707 and 708 bulkheads to it. The plans technically show how to cut the ends of the J stringers to mate up with the aft baggage bulkhead, but it's convoluted to say the least, so I didn't cut the stringers to length or shape the ends yet. I just slid them into place for now and will cut them later.
Next up was the side skins, which got clecoed to the bulkheads.
The baggage bulkhead was the last one to cleco on today. It never ceases to amaze me how much super flimsy material stiffens up once assembled.
