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Old 01-30-2010, 10:34 PM
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Asking for ideas as best way to break the edges on the tail cone edges. How far from edge and distance from rivet holes? what did you use to do this?

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Old 01-31-2010, 06:31 AM
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Ted,

There is lots of advice in the forum on this topic. Go to "Advanced Search" and search on "edge breaking" - in quotes. You will get about 45 threads. Many of them relavent to your question.

I ordered the Cleaveland tool. Works good, but be sure to practice on some scrap. Multiple light passes work best.

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Old 01-31-2010, 08:32 AM
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Mine break in the center of the rivet in the aft area.
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Old 01-31-2010, 06:35 PM
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I used the disk breaker-- multiple passes. The break line is right in the center of the rivet holes which keeps you from getting an even smooth break. Riveting the piece does take out most of the waviness, but due to the location of the break line you'll have to touch drill many of the holes to get the rivets in place.

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Old 01-31-2010, 07:03 PM
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Get the Cleveland tool. It is the easiest to use and your breaks are perfect everytime. Nothing else comes close.
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Old 01-31-2010, 07:08 PM
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The Cleveland tool also worked well for me.
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Old 01-31-2010, 09:10 PM
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I used the Cleveland tool. The posts about not twisting it as I pulled helped a lot.

I saw someone post that they didn't break the edges at all. So I clecoed the entire tail cone and noticed that not all of the edges needed breaking. I did the aft half of both sides of the top skin. I also did the aft half of the lower edges of the F-1208 skins.
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Old 04-07-2010, 06:48 PM
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Is this the tool your suggesting? http://www.cleavelandtoolstore.com/p...sp?number=EF60 as I'm about to start on the tailcone of my build and want to get it right
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Old 04-07-2010, 06:50 PM
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That's it!
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Old 04-07-2010, 07:22 PM
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Thank you I've emailed to ask about shipping to the UK as I can't seem to find one here
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