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Date:  10-17-2017
Number of Hours:  10.00
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Brief Description:  Pant Making Points

I'm close to making out the pants in position. So I need the pant parts ready. I did yet again an assembly on the gear and noted where my hard points are needed.

I then cut out a series of disks and glued them in place on the pants. There were 8 disks so it all took a while. I wish I'd spent longer as the hardpoint and the positions were not exact centers on those disks. In fact some of them were too far away from the pant so I made another lot of disks, some as wedges and did another glue cycle with them.

While that was curing I made up a set of pointers as you see in pic 2. These were just bolts and screws with the heads ground off and placed in the fastener fittings (nut plates and the AN4 size wheel axle). A bolt in a drill held against a big sanding disk also rotating works to make a point. I did enough for one wheel at a time. You get the pants on, lined up and give them a wack with a plastic faced hammer. Finally a fun bit. Pic 2 shows the wheel marker and the others looked pretty similar.

Pic 3 is my lining up. I used a centerline in the nose and firewall and dropped a plumb bob and marked it on a bit of tape...taped to the floor. Then I measure out two feet both side and marked that. This was both nose and firewall. I used a bit of cotton stretched out and taped at both ends with some gaffer. This is what you see in pic 3. The idea is to get the nose and tail of the pants parallel with the planes center line.
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Spacer disks

Spacer disks

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Maker fittings

Maker fittings

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Center lines

Center lines

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