Message-ID: <004001c0ab7a$0c9ab840$401ff4d8@walter>
From: "Walter Dodson" <coy0te@earthlink.net>
To: "LancairList" <lancair.list@olsusa.com>
Subject: steamboat
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:55:34 -0800
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Most of us old sheetmetal guys have a few steamboats in our tool box.  A
drill bushing mounted into a 3/4" to 1" slab of aluminum is called a
steamboat because that's what it looks like.  Remember 'Steamboat Willie'?
A wooden block sounds ok, too.  At "the factory" we always had pleanty of
aluminum plate scraps floating around and the tools to insert a drill
bushing into a small piece of that scrap in the shape of a small rectangle.
Steamboats are used by all sheetmetal men just to make sure the eye is
right.
A number thirty, twenty-one and ten are very usefull.  HiLocks require 1/64"
over sizes thru five sixteenths inch or so, depending on how big your bomber
is.  Home builders simply need to make a hole normal to the surface and can
let it out to size.
Walter Dodson

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