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Hours Today: 3.0 Project Total: 375.1



(10-7 step 7):  Today I got to drill… yep… drill… 249 holes… but who's counting!  I final drilled one of the stiffeners before going in to work.  After work I did the other two.  Pull up a chair, and get comfortable cuz this is repetative stuff!  My poor little drill actually quit on me once.  If I had used the air drill on this there's no telling how many times our compressor would've come on!  Oh well its done now!

Once all the stiffeners were drilled and clecoed I had to see what the next step was… it was late and I needed to get in bed… but I had to peek!  It was to flip the assembly over and cleco the bulkheads in the rear of the tailcone in preparation for mounting the left side skin.  Well, I just had to do that!  Turns out the bulkheads needed some massaging and deburring to their flanges, and I didn't want to get that involved.  But it was cool to see the tailcone (at least the beginnings of it) upright!  So I had to get this cheesy pic!



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