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Date:  1-30-2016
Number of Hours:  2.00
Manual Reference:  13-11
Brief Description:  Nose upper skin

Plans have you cut flox corners all around the nose top, which had puzzled me, but I now notice because the plans only hint at putting a transition piece in the inside corner I guess most builders have less foam than me to play with. Also the 2 x BID skin is only taped with 1 x BID, and those rather small, so maybe the flox carries some of the structure. Regardless, I now have 2 flox corners, inner and outer, with foam between.

Patched some dodgy holes with blue wing foam, 5-min into place. 5-min on the F-5 packing piece.

Shaped inner side foam where there is no glass for extra tapes.

Drilled 17/64" holes through F-22 & F-0 port side fro Al pitot line. Started excavating foam from each end with 12" 1/4" drill bit by hand, tracking progress with a bright light through the side. Placed a sharpened bolt in the end of a 32" bit of soft 1/4" Al tubing and bunged it in from either end. Met in the middle OK, but very stiff to get it all the way through. Ran a pull wire through, and got the tubing through on the second attempt. It is in really solidly, and I don't see any need to fix it in any way. Cut off the mangled ends and taped them. Forgot to blow the line through, I'm SURE I'll remember to do this before hooking it up, (do you HEAR me future self??)

Shaped a bit of scrap foam to use as a form for the brake master cylinder, and hot-glued it to F-5.

4 x BID over the mc form

2 x BID tape around the door opening, then 1 x BID over the bottom of the nose top.
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Testing foot clearance

Testing foot clearance

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Boofing in the pitot line, following the progress through the side reminds me of my last angiogram...

Boofing in the pitot line, following the progress through the side reminds me of my last angiogram...

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Skinning the inside with my few remaining BID scraps

Skinning the inside with my few remaining BID scraps

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