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    The rotabroach works good for cutting paint around painted over screws. Doesn't apply much to a kitfox though. But yes they do make a great hole.
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    DW,


    Ah....! As soon as I saw the photo you posted, it all came back to me - I have used a device that looks just like that called a "Blair cutter" it wasn't on airplanes, but for cutting spot welds on body work on cars.



    I think I might have to ressurect this so I can cut some neat holes in the bottom angle of the firewall to access the rudder torque tube bolts.


    Thanks for the reminder!
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    unibits work well also
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    Wing stands anybody? I was building specialized saw horses in preparation for mounting and rigging my wings - using a pair of saw roller stands due to the length of the 2x4s that would end up as part of the saw horses when the light came on!!! I had been researching what several had reported as their choice de jour for supporting the wings when rigging and saw the answer (for me anyhow) under the 2x4. Fully adjustable and plenty strong. Anyhow, I'm not sure I would buy them just for this but if you have em, why not. If you need them for future project, why not?
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    Your mind is always in the thinking mode--nice.

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    This is what we used when remounting my wings on my 3.

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    It is a Drywall Jack from Harbor Freight.

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    I used that HF roller stand as the basis for my trigear tail support used when wings are folded.
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    I used an under hoist safety stand I got at HF. It has a pretty nice jack screw that you turn to raise and lower the wing. Not as nice as the drywall rig Ill admit.
    Gary, do you think that roller stand would support the weight of a Tail wheel KF. It looks like a pretty dang good economical means of moving the tail around when pushing the plane back into a half hanger. I could secure it to a solid base board and put wheels on the board.
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    Eddie,
    I think that I measured something less than 50 pounds at the tail skid unfueled. I'm out of town currently and do not recall what the stand was rated for, but it is much higher than that. I set the HF stand on a small HF furniture dolly (also rated a lot higher) to aid in moving the plane around. I must have the nose a couple of feet out the hangar door to get clearance for swinging the wings.
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    perfect, I have that dolly. checked out HF today wile picking up some split wire loom. They didn't have the stand in the store.
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