Making Lemonade Out Of Lemons  by Doug Reeves
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This is meant to give hope to those people who screw things up.  People like me.

 

What I was supposed to do:  Dimple the fuse skin with a #8 dimple set for the #8 countersunk machine screw that holds the clamp that holds the rudder cable sleeve in place where it exits the back of the fuse (what do you think of that run-on sentence?).

What I did instead:  Screwed up the dimpling process so bad I had to drill out the hole completely to the size of the screw head.

How I Made Lemonade:  Made a little doubler plate with a correctly dimpled #8 hole and pop rivetted it into place.

Point:  You will screw up.  There are ways to fix it (usually).