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I'm not actually writing this update until several days after the fact so it will actually encompass the whole week of September 19th. To start out the week, I riveted the fuel pickups to the tank access plates. These got sealed with proseal and the rivets were a tight squeeze to get the bucking bar on them. Fortunately, the slanted face of my tungsten bucking bar had a little corner that just barely fit in there and got the job done.  After the rivets were set, I covered both the manufactured heads and the shop heads with proseal. These should now be good to go.  This was all I did Monday because a bunch of people came over to watch the Monday Night Football game. The next few days, I was waiting on a tube flaring tool so I could proceed with the fuel vent line in the tanks. When it finally got here, I was disappointed with the quality of flare that it produced. I can really only be mad at myself as I went cheap (but not that cheap, it was still $60) and got this kind:  It did bad things to the tube where it grasped the tubing and the flare was pretty terrible and there was no way to get it consistant so I ordered this one from Aircraft Spruce:  It produces a much better and more consistant flare without damaging the tube, this is one of the coolest tools that I own! Unfortunately, by the time the tool had gotten here, the day had come for me to get my wisdom teeth taken out so I was pretty much worthless and couldn't work on the plane. It did give me some time to read other people's logs and think about how I want to equip the plane some. Overall a pretty unproductive week as far as the project is concerned but I'm hoping it will pick back up as I start to feel better and get off the drugs next week.
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