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Fitting

I worked some more on the fittings today. Again working from a rough cut part to a near finished part.

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Flap Handle

I made the flap handle today. Using one of the previously cut strips, I cleaned up the edge using the vixen file. I then cut the strip to length and added the radii at the ends using the bench sander. A little sanding, bend and scotch brite and the handle was complete.

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Drive Horn

I finished bending the drive horn. I find it difficult to estimate the amount of overbend required. In this case I went a little beyond and had to hammer the bend back a bit.<br /><br /> With the bend complete I used scotch brite again to clean up the orange peel like marks in the area of the ben.

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More Work on the Drive Horn

I continued working on the drive horn today. I center punched and drilled all of the pilot holes, completed the sanding and used scotch brite to clean up the part. I filed the bevel on the one edge as indicated. This appears to provide some relief when the horn is riveted to one of the ribs for the rudder.<br /><br /> With all of this work completed I started to setup for bending the drive horn.

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The Other Attach Plate

For the oval hole in the other attach plate I decided to drill a single hole and then cut the entire oval using a coping saw. This seemed to work quite well. I did some sanding with the drum sander. When I overlayed the parts I discovered that the two ovals were not the same size. After some measuring I discovered that I had measure one of the holes wrong. I was too small. Whew! Making a hole bigger is easier than making it smaller. After marking the correct hole size is used a round file to open up the hole.

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