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Old 11-26-2012 | 07:50 PM
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Now lay your glass tail cone back onto the fuselage and tape it down then using a ruler draw a center line down the middle, I use fine point sharpies for all my marking and if you need to redraw then you wipe it off with alcohol. Now lay your template back on top and line it up over the center line and tape it down then trace the wheel opening. I used my Dremel tool with a very thin abrasive blade to cut out the wheel opening because what you cut out will be your doors. Now very carefully( you only get one shot at it) cut down the sides, the end and the middle of the opening to create 2 doors. Ok so how did he cut so nicely around the curve end of the doors? Can't tell you, you'll have to guessJust kidding. Igot to that point and said the same thing, now what? Icould use my 1/8" rotary bit but that would make to big of a kerf then it hit meA long time ago I bought a set of these micro carbide cutters from Harbor Freight thinking maybe I might use these some day and today was that day. They are so small they hardly remove much at all leaving me with a nice set of doors. A little sanding of the edges and things look good.
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