| This section bends the Fwd Fuse skins to match the bottom contours. I had to make a trip to Mom and Dad's to use his table |
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| saw to recut the Clamping Block, Otherwise pretty straight forward, It was a little tricky in getting the aft edge bent, On the Left |
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| skin, the clamping block moved when I was striking the forming /twisting bars and it may have put the bend a little higher/tighter |
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| than it shoudl be. I'll check when clecoing for match drill, if it's too tight, I should be able to take a dolly.bucking bar to it and back |
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| it down a bit. I found that in addition to using the method in the pictures that in order to get an even distribution of 'bend' that |
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| simply using your fingers and applying pressure in spepcific areas, whil putting the twist in with the vice grips worked much better |
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| that just using the vice grips and hoping that it all works out. That's the problem in building, it takes about bending 4 skins to |
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| figure out your technique, and by that time your done before you have the opportunity to do the 'perfect part'. The other thing is |
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| that I'm not convinced that it was necessary to make the cut to the clamping block, the angle is only slightly different than the |
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| other side and in the final analysis those angles dont' seem to be that critical, it seems you could just as easily have turned it |
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| around and sanded the 1/8 radius on th edge. (But them some lucky Phoenix builder wouldn't have the pass along gift) |
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