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Date:  10-22-2013
Number of Hours:  2.00
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Brief Description:  Rear bow + horizontals

Kept working the shape of the bow to match the turtle deck. Then I put the horizontals in place on the fuselage longerons, and joined the rear bow with the horizontal members, with the black painted corner brackets.

Most of the bending I did with my knees. But for the tight bends needed near the bottom of the bow, I used a simple bending jig of two 2x4 blocks screwed to the work bench (photo 2).

With the bow on the brackets the bow was too high above the turtle deck. So I took the bow off and made small incremental cuts off the ends of the bow, to get the bow down to the correct offset from the turtle deck. Each time I would go less than 1/4", put the frame back together and check the height.
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Working the bow into position, attached to the corner brackets.

Working the bow into position, attached to the corner brackets.

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Simple bending jig.

Simple bending jig.

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Rear bow meets horizontal square tube, joined with corner bracket.

Rear bow meets horizontal square tube, joined with corner bracket.

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