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  Wed Jul 25 18:42:25 2007 - I found it helpful to place a pen line down the axis of the tubing to indicate the inside of the bend. This provided orientation and it's easy to look up in the tubing bender to see the line.  Wed Jul 25 18:08:31 2007 - These bends are tricky because you are not only trying to go around the rudder cable, but you need to also work forward a bit and around the piece of angle. Don't forget, there are two spacers to offset of fitting inward. And be careful not to put too much of a bend at the very end that you can't install your nut and sleeve (in the proper orientation, of course) and flare the end. Another hint, the AN fitting does not need to be vertical. I rotated mine just a little to match up with the tubing.    Wed Jul 25 18:08:12 2007 - Sorry to say, I spent waaaayyyy to much time on this. Finally got it on the 3rd evening. The second one was completed in about 40 minutes. A couple of notes: 1) Get yourself a good tubing bender (the Imperial 370-FH is quite nice) and learn how to use it - Dave Parsons has an excellent tutorial, 2) Don't forget to compensate for the thickness of the adel clamps when you make your bends, 3) I used a spring bender to form the bends on the aft end. I spent way to much time and effort taking things out and trying to make things fit. You just gotta get in there and go to town. Careful, though. The aluminum tubing will work harden in a couple of bends.   Tue Jul 17 19:43:44 2007 - The left mount turned out great, too. I'm not yet ready to bolt these in permanently just yet. Thinking about painting the interior and I don't want to paint around them.  Tue Jul 17 19:43:32 2007 - The gear mounts went in nice and snug. The instructions call out for shims if enough gap is encountered. No gap here when pushed into place by hand. Don't forget to glue the washer into place (Shoe-Goo works great!).  
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Wed Jul 25 18:08:12 2007 - Sorry to say, I spent waaaayyyy to much time on this. Finally got it on the 3rd evening. The second one was completed in about 40 minutes. A couple of notes: 1) Get yourself a good tubing bender (the Imperial 370-FH is quite nice) and learn how to use it - Dave Parsons has an excellent tutorial, 2) Don't forget to compensate for the thickness of the adel clamps when you make your bends, 3) I used a spring bender to form the bends on the aft end. I spent way to much time and effort taking things out and trying to make things fit. You just gotta get in there and go to town. Careful, though. The aluminum tubing will work harden in a couple of bends.

Wed Jul 25 18:08:12 2007 - Sorry to say, I spent waaaayyyy to much time on this. Finally got it on the 3rd evening. The second one was completed in about 40 minutes. A couple of notes: 1) Get yourself a good tubing bender (the Imperial 370-FH is quite nice) and learn how to use it - Dave Parsons has an excellent tutorial, 2) Don't forget to compensate for the thickness of the adel clamps when you make your bends, 3) I used a spring bender to form the bends on the aft end. I spent way to much time and effort taking things out and trying to make things fit. You just gotta get in there and go to town. Careful, though. The aluminum tubing will work harden in a couple of bends.

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