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3/29/98 - Fuselage jig completed. Cut 4130 tubes for fuselage sides. Ended up bending the bottom .75x.049 longeron with a simple conduit bender.The bends are so small, why the hell not! Watch out and keep both bends straight! Also, instead of using a hack saw to cut the tubes, I grabbed an old heavy-duty tubing cutter that I had in the toolbox, oiled it up, and cut every tube with that. Worked great! And accurate too! Each cut was on the money and squared off the end to boot. Started on sides and cut two of everything. Screwed up a couple of pieces when I neglected to notice the stepdown to 1/2" from 5/8" toward the tail. Was in tube cutting nurvana and didn't notice until almost done. Set aside the waste 5/8" pieces for use later (I hope)
HOURS = 6
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