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Fri 30 September 2005

Dad continued with the oil cooler mounting. Mainly just match drilling and shaping. Also a .063 spacer was made to go between the side and rear baffles, this helps move the oil cooler slight back away from the cylinder fins. Not sure if it will be needed in the final solution, but easier to make and shape now.
I continued with the front baffle floors and front surface. Card process again used to get the basic shape for the compound cuts.
Again quite a significant amount of material was removed, this time I used snips rather than the band saw - worked OK.
Then I progressed to the F11A tie plate - this is a fiddly little plate which is very difficult to work with as getting clecos in and alignment of the various curved / bent surface is a bit of 'art form'. The instructions have almost been thrown away by this point.
Dad also marked up the oil cooler for trimming near the engine mount. I then attacked it with the sabre saw and rotor burr.
The other braket I worked on was the front crankcase bracket for the LHS floor baffle. Fairly simple, just shaping and trimming.
Mahlon and the AeroSance people seem to be on the case and are working through the FADEC issues - more updates to come. In the mean time I'll focus on other things. 
Carl Morgan