An early Christmas present from Dad - an infrared heater! I had to do some rewiring in the garage to get another 240v plug for it, but it was definitely worth it. For a brief moment I thought about mounting it on the ceiling or wall, but I really wanted it to be portable enough to move across the garage when I need to prime parts. I ended up just repurposing one of my old wing jig stands and mounting it to that. It's amazing the difference it makes on a cold day! The best part is no more cold tools! That alone makes a huge difference.
The seat ribs all had a pretty good bend to them so needed a bit of fluting to flatten them out.
Clecoed the seat ribs to the aft center bulkhead, match drilled, and cut the holes for wiring conduit.
The seat ribs all get riveted as well as bolted to the center bulkhead. The instructions make it sound like the ribs should already be drilled for the bolts, but they aren't. I looked it up, and they get AN3-10 bolts, so I grabbed a 3/16" drill and match drilled the ribs to the bulkhead.
The next step was to start adding the baggage ribs to the 705 bulkhead. Just like two of the seat ribs, the inside two ribs have to have half holes carved out of the flange to match the wiring holes in the bulkhead.
Next up, connecting the baggage area to the seating area. I could only get so far though, because some of the back ordered items that I've been waiting on are the outboard baggage ribs. I called Van's a couple of days ago and asked if they could ship all of the back ordered items they have instead of waiting for everything to be ready. They agreed, and everything except for one bag that is still not in stock actually arrived today! It didn't get here until late tonight, but at least I have the parts I need to keep rolling now.
