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Date:  12-1-2017
Number of Hours:  1.50
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Brief Description:  Engine Baffling

1700 - 1830

Today was spent designing the ignition wire pass throughs. The stock plastic parts specified by Vans were not useable as they were designed for 5 mm wires and the ignition wires on my airplane are 8 mm. I was going to enlarge the holes on the specified parts but there was insufficient material to do so.

I considered 3D printing them but settled on machining aluminum parts with silicone grommets.

I used the Smithy milling machine to fabricate overlapping pieces by milling an 063 rabbit in the edge of an 1/8" piece of 6061 sheet.

The overlapping pieces were then clamped to a board and drilled to 9/16" for the grommets, using a unibit.

The mounting holes were then located, match drilled, deburred, and smoothed.

Two pairs were fabricated.
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