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Date:  12-17-2008
Number of Hours:  1.00
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Brief Description:  Trimmed and smoothed edges of left side rudder sti

Well today is my wife's birthday....sooo what am I doing working on the RV! Simple, today is Wednesday and I agreed to take her to dinner and a movie on Friday or Saturday. Happy birthday Louise.

As I said earlier, I don't like using the scotch brite wheel. Maybe I'm not using it correctly so I will research this sometime soon. For now I prefer to use the vixen file for rough cut followed by a finer file and/or scrotch brite pads. With parts like stiffners it is diificult to pass vixen file over part but it is much easier to draw the part over the vixen file. To aid in this process, I fabricated a simple jig to hold the vixen file steady. The way I did this is to start with a pc of hardwood I had...birch I think, and sliced a thin piece out of it just a little thinner than the thickness of the file. Then I marked the outline of the vixen file on the thin piece and cut out the outline of the file on my Skill band saw. I clamp the whole assembly to the workbench. This set up works great and requires very little time to clean the edges of the stiffners.
Using new vixen jig, I smoothed and
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Vixen file assembly clamped to workbench ready for parts

Vixen file assembly clamped to workbench ready for parts

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Vixen file inserted in the thinly sliced piece of birch as a holder

Vixen file inserted in the thinly sliced piece of birch as a holder

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LS rudder stiffners trimmed and smoothed

LS rudder stiffners trimmed and smoothed

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