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5/23/2006

I'm fighting a pretty strong head cold right now, but I still managed to get a good night's work in tonight.  I kept going on the T-405 tank attach angles by filing and scotchbrite wheeling them to shape and smooth them.  The wheel got a workout tonight!

Then I drilled each attach angle according to the plans, then drilled them to the ribs and reinforcement plates.

Next I deburred those holes, and moved to cutting the holes in the inboard ribs with the drill press and fly cutter...

I was worried about this, but it turned out to work like a charm!  I'm not sure why these don't come already done.  Seems like it could be cut very easily.  Anyway, they are done, and it was time to clamp the T-408 access plates to the ribs where I just made the cutout, and drill and cleco those in place.

Then the ribs get flipped over to cleco the T-407 attach ring to the ribs.  These get set aside for now.

Next, since I'm putting a standard fuel pick up tube in the right tank, I had to make the T-915 anti rotation bracket.  I broke my bandsaw blade tonight cutting this little piece, so I'll have to get a new one soon.  I also don't have a 9/16th drill bit to drill the big hole in the bracket.  So, this is where I left off for the night.

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