Fighting a nasty migraine this morning and the onset of a late summer cold, I muddled through a little work on the Yak this morning. I wanted to put back together some of the broken carnage so I had some what of a template to go from when the new replacement wood arrives. The worst part of a rebuild after a crash (to me) is trying to figure out where all those silly jigsaw puzzle pieces go. And in what order they should be assembled. So the forward bottom of the belly was lightly glued together to give me some reference.
Once that was completed, I began removing the outer "left" fuse side section. I had been told that by using my heat gun on the factory glue joints, it would aid in the removing of damaged wood. Well, why not give it a try? So I did. Much to my amazement, it worked pretty slick. Guess I will have to concede my son just might know what he is talking about. LOL. I got the forward fuse side and the adjacent F64 backer support removed and set it aside.
Once those pieces were removed, I cleaned up for the time being the pieces that I may choose to keep in place. I don't feel there is a need to replace wood that is not broken. So, I will probably leave this side as it is until the new wood arrives.
Next I will start loosening the can tunnel "roof"/"tank floor" so that I can loosen the motor box sides that extend from the motor box firewall back to where it joins the aft section of the wing socket rib. In the third picture up, you can see where it joins together with a doubler. F37A is the aft section that will not be removed as there is no damage beyond this point. The forward section is the major support for not only the motor box sides, but the main locating point of the landing gear block. On a smaller and lighter plane, I have "sectioned" in pieces at this point rather than replace the entire side. But with an in excess of 50 pound plane, I just am not willing to take a chance of a possible failure.
More later......
