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Old 01-10-2015, 01:46 PM
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Thanks Sean! Check out my next one - you're going to get top billing for your Avons F-104 build and video! I hope to see you out and about next season - maybe even at Farview, if they get their issues resolved...

Here are the first three formers installed. The first one is a ring former right where the removable nose is cut off.

The second and third formers hold the nose gear mount plates. As I said, I modified them to move the plates up far enough for the ARF strut length, but I think I'll have to do more modifications to move the nose gear mount towards the rear. That's for later though...

In order to position them correctly, I measured the distance from the nose to the former on the plans, and tack glued small plywood blocks to the sides of the fuselage at that distance to provide a method to hold the formers in the correct location while the Hysol set.

Bob

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