Robert, Don't worry over the hole. When you bolt on the Diehl bracket over the hole, that will be much more strengthening for the shear web than any 3/32" plywood would do. Make sure to have a viable path for the brake hydraulic lines before closing in the stub wing. It would be a nice touch to have access to the bolt heads and nuts on the Diehl bracket after the stub wing is completed for annual condition inspections.
Sid Wood Tri-gear KR-2 N6242 Mechanicsville, MD, USA smw...@md.metrocast.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert Gill. Tassy Australia.Hi all I have a small problem with a hole in the shear webbing on the front of the fwd spar, the hole was originally patched by someone else but that was ok because they were going to use the retract gear were I am not, I am going to be using the diehl fixed gear as a tail dragger. I carefully scaped away the patch to level the spar for the mounting brackets (I did expect there to be a hole why else for a patch), but can i get away with this size hole and leave it in the webbing? or should i scarf in a new piece of ply. Why or how this hole got there i have no idea! but seems to be cut into it.-- this is the link to an image of the hole for some one to give me an idea http://www.lilausydreamkr2.com/uploads/1/0/3/7/10378354/7420344_orig.jpg
