Talked with Vans Builder Support today. He seemed surprised at my confusion but admitted this was the first he looked at this latest set of drawing/instructions. He said he’d pull out the parts, would take a look at it and get back to me.
I followed up this afternoon and he said they all spent a good part of the morning working through everything and discovered all the problems I described. Good news is that it looks like the parts will still work, it will just be updated procedures and steps. I guess someone had to be the first to find the mistakes. I think I understand what needs to be done but will wait for Vans Engineering to send me their thoughts. It’s easier to wait and drill once than to un-drill a mistake.
I’m on work travel for the rest of the week, then planning on spending the whole weekend with my brother who’s working in Northern CA in from Atlanta. Looks like I’ll reengage next week. At least that gives me plenty of time to work out exactly what the next steps are.
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