Beat it!
Well now this is just great. You just beat the snot outa the thing with a hammer. So Cleve gave it a try since all the nice posts said thats the way. Here is our nice straight piece of angle before it was bent.
Angle before it was bent, nice and straight
Cleve got to work on it just like you guys said, and here is what we got 30 minutes later.
Look what happened to our nice pretty angle.
Well it sure got bent alright. Thanks a lot for the advise guys.
So I said well, why dont we put some pipe under it and run over it in a car. Cleve said "no, his little compact wasnt heavy enough but we have a lot of trains comming thru here. Why dont we grab a couple of cans of beans and go down to the rail yard and make us a nice little campfire to keep warm and cook our beans. When a train comes by we can shove the pipe and the angle under the wheel. That should surely bend it right."
At that time our friend Lester a retired railroad man walked in and he up and said "NO, its a federal felony to shove stuff under a train wheel. Besides its going to rain and put out your camp fire and youll have to eat cold beans."
Suddenly, Cleve's eyes lit up like a 50 watt neon, and he yelled "Hey, I know how I can get that angle bent." He grabs another piece of angle and heads over to the vise. Well, write this one down in your note books incase you ever build another RV. This was pure genius, and it was as easy as bending a piece of 030 skin. He put the angle between the jaws and clamped it down. And cranked down hard on the vise jaws till the angle bent exactly right. We could even measure exactly how much the angle bent. How do you measure how much it bends between hammer blows?
The clever way Cleve bent the angle using the vise
So here we are now with our finished parts bent exactly to the right shape and drilled out. And never struck by a hammer. Cool aye.
Nicely bent parts finished and ready to paint
Mounted to the fuselage with the tank stub drilled for the nutplate to go on
A nice job if I do say so myself.
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