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Buck's RV-8
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Date: 5-2-2007
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Number of Hours: 0.00
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Brief Description: Cool pneumatic tools; gear tower access holes
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I'm a huge sucker for great tools. After a recent, unexpected cash windfall, I decided to buy a couple of items I thought I'd never need or care about.
First was a Taylor pneumatic shear. After using it to cut out a pair access covers for my gear towers, I fell hopelessly in love with it. As you can see in the first photo, they will cut a perfect, 1/4" wide strip of metal, with absolutely no burrs, edge deformation, or physical effort. The second photo below shows two different methods of cutting the access holes between two pre-punched lightening holes. The dramatic difference is what you can't see. The top cut took over five minutes with a noisy Dremel tool and a cutoff wheel. The bottom cut took me six seconds. It's so easy to cut metal with shears, it makes you want to cut up a bunch of scrap, just for fun.
The other tool I bought was a pneumatic cleco tool. I almost felt guilty using it the first time, but after inserting the twenty clecoes in the access cover in about 30 seconds with nothing but a small pressure from my index finger, all of my reservations disappeared. This thing will really come in handy on large forests of clecoes, like on the wing skins, where repetitive strain injuries are most likely.
Yeah, you can call me a tool weenie. I don't mind.
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Pneumatic shears, from Avery Tools.
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Top cut (under the clecoes) = Five minutes with a Dremel. Bottom cut = Six seconds with a shear.
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I never, ever thought I'd use pneumatic cleco pliers, but they're great!
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