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Old 03-02-2017 | 08:10 PM
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mgosson
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Default Cooling- Venting Part 2

The saga continues.

This had to be one of the easiest jobs I've completed on the plane so far. It really does help when you spend about an hour digging through various sites and photos. Much time could be saved if you supplied some sort of building manual. I hope someone here can benefit from my photo postings.

The trick was knowing exactly where to place the supplied wood template on the fuselage. After looking at a few photos it became clear it needed to be placed behind the former aft of the trailing edge of the wing.

I taped 4 balsa pieces to the fuselage and placed the light ply template between the balsa stock. It lined up pretty close. Took a few more measurements and taped the template to the fuselage. Proceeded to mark the fuse with a marking pen to make the lines more pronounced. Took my Dremel with the snake extension and a cut-off wheel, the snake cable is one handy gizmo to have. Put the Dremel to work and cut inside the template where I could and finished cutting the fine edges with a micro cutter bit. Placed the fine grind stone on the snake and rounded the corners. Removed the template and finish sanded all the edges to clean it up.

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