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Start
Once the Nose Skin is cut to 900mm we started adding a scrap piece of wood to the edge. |
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Edge
Edge board is held on with 300mph tape. |
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Other side
We applied a board to the other edge of the Nose Skin with Duck Tape. |
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Flip
The Nose Skin was flipped over for the next step. |
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Straps
Time to get the straps out. |
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Straps under
The straps were fed under the skin. |
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Attaching Straps
Time to start bending. |
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All attached
All the red straps attached. |
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Adjusting Straps
Bit by bit we adjust the straps. |
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All Done
Yup! That's right. We're all done adjusting the red straps. |
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See Boards
Here you can see why we installed to boards to protect the edges of the Nose Skin. Can't have any smilies now can we! :-) |
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Surprise!
Yup! We have more straps. This time we used black plastic straps used in packing (1/2 inch wide). |
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Adding Straps
We needed to apply 14 of the black straps to have the tension applied in an even fashion. |
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Straps
All 14 straps attached now. |
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Tension
Time to start shortening the black straps. One person pushes down on the wood (never on the aluminum) and the other tightens the strap. |
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Red Straps
Don't forget to remove the (now useless) red straps. |
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Done! Ready to Bend.
That's it! All the black straps are tightened. We're done with them. |
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Tunnel Vision
We couldn't resist taking this picture. It looks way cool! |
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View
Here is another view of the tightened straps. |
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Promotion
David gets a promotion to Domestic duties on the low Pile carpet! Don't even THINK about using shag for this. |
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Guess !!
Do you see it comming??? |
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Back
Here is a picture of David's table. The plans for this building table are in the Homemade tool section on this website. |
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You guessed it!
Yup. Thats right. We're using the table as a brake !!! |
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Stop Blocks
We set stop blocks to ensure that when we stepped on the backside of the table, we would not completely squish the Nose Skin. 58 mm blocks gave a great radius on the nose. |
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Heavy Table
By the way, don't try this alone!! |
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Measurement
After squashing the Nose skins, all of them had the same amount of spring back. |
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Done!!!
The nose skin now has the finished shape. |
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:-)
Not a single :-) in the whole skin !!! |
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Work Of Art
Can this get any better? I think Not !!!! |
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Straps removed
Perfection, All 4 are the same, 2 for Davids 601 and 2 for mine. |
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Time
The first one took about 2 hours the last one took about 20 minutes. So pretty much standard for a Zenith Part. The first plane takes 1500hrs the 4th plane takes 500hrs. |
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