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(Duckworks HID Landing Lights):  Ok, back to fitting the lense retaining brackets.  I want to at least get the upper ones fitted tonight.  First thing is to mark a line 0.3" from the upper edge of the opening in the wing.  Then the larger upper piece gets centered over the opening and clamped in place on this line.  I match drilled the two center holes to the wing skin, and then clecoed the thicker, but smaller piece in its place on top of the larger one.  I then match drilled all the holes into the skin.  This stackup you see will be attached exactly as you see it, but inside the skin.  This will put the smaller piece flush against the inside of the skin, and the larger one will form a slot that the lense will fit under (between it and the skin... if that makes any sense)

Since the thicker piece will fit flush against the inside of the skin, it needs to be countersunk to accept the skin dimples we'll be putting in later.

The last thing to do for the upper retaining brackets is to put a slight bend in the larger piece.  This opens up the 'slot' allowing the lense to be inserted a bit easier.  I clamped it to the end of the table, and gently hammered a slight bend.



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