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Fabricating the tunnel gun: Part VIII Originally Posted on Dec. 20, 2006 During our last episode, I had just gotten the tunnel gun door hinges all worked out to what their location needed to be and so on. I then disassembled the components of the door and prepped and primed them. While the primed parts were curing, I fabricated a reinforcing plate that goes on the original structure to beef it up in the area where the hinges are located. This was imperative to do, as the original structure had been altered when the airplane was converted to a transport and some of the tunnel gun structural components were removed. I forgot to take pictures of this process, but it was a pretty straight forward piece to build. The only "trickery" involved was the use of the bead roller again to add some additional strength. After the piece was all trimmed up and primed, I riveted it and the stationary hinge points in place.........  
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