26/05/2008 - Its raining so no flying on bank holiday just building instead !

But first on Saturday night I went to see Ricky Hatton fight at the Manchester city stadium.  A crowd of 55,000 were there chanting his name and shouting 'Who are yar?' over and over again at his opponent in the red shorts.  Ricky born in Manchester went 12 rounds and won decisively on points.  He retained his IBO & Ring light welterweight belts and it was a cracking night.

There's only one Ricky Hatton,
One Ricky Hatton,
Walking along,
Singing a song,
Walking in a Hatton wonderland

Anyway on with the building! and continuing with the Dan method ! so its on with the fuel tank and utilising some ratchet straps to pull and hold the tank in place makes sure you get the fit just right.  Second picture shows that by using the long 12" drill the inner most rib can be match drilled to its bracket.  Next the leading edge comes off so that the outboard most rib can be drilled using the same method.  The third picture shows then by unclecoing the baffle plate, and leaving the end most ribs in place the rest of the fuel tank is removed.  I had drawn lines in the centre of the brackets so I could see how well everything lines up.  Now remember Dan's method says to move 1/8 away from the web on all but the inner most bracket , so you can see the line is 1/8th out, so I am happy with that, cause that's what I wanted to happen.  The brackets were then match drilled to the holes in the baffle plate.

There was enough time left in the day to open up the hole for the tie down ring