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Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2009 6:51 am**

Here are some photos of jig number 2 that I am working on for the B17 project in SC

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2009 10:53 am**

Absolutely gorgeous Lucky 13!

PS Can I come have breakfast off your floors?

SPANNER

Posted: **Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:05 pm**

Lucky we are going to add you to the list of all of us that they will one day come get with a net.

Posted: **Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:22 pm**

Been welding the last two nights here are a few more photos

Posted: **Fri Jul 24, 2009 8:32 pm**

Here are a few more photos. Been drilling holes in the uprights and started welding the brackets on and after 8 hours I have two uprights standing.

Posted: **Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:17 pm**

Here are a few more photos

Posted: **Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:23 pm**

Have all of the upright`s up now and I will be working on the bracket`s that hold the longeron`s and the carrythrought`s

To the untrained eye this look`s like a pile of aluminum but thanks to Bill Stanczak and Mike Kellner this is the start of the forward fuselage of my B17

Posted: **Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:18 am**

Holey moley is all I can say. This process is very interesting and will get exciting as it progresses. Keep the photos coming, please.

Posted: **Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:48 am**

Looks like you are moving right along.

What an ambitious and exciting project.

I bet you will finish your full sized B-17 before I ever get around to building my 1/48 scale Monogram kit...

Posted: **Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:47 am**

Scott
Perhaps you can have another heading/link as with the Desert Rat one, to keep the progress in one place where we all can see it better.

Posted: **Thu Aug 13, 2009 6:32 pm**

I have some of the bracket`s that hold the longeron`s in place welded on.

Posted: **Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:10 pm**

If anyone is having trouble picturing where the B-17 goes on
this jig, here is a hint:

In Lucky13's latest picture from 8/13
The uprights closest to you would help
support Bulkhead #4. The next set would be
for Bulkhead #5, and the far set would
be for Bulkhead #6.

Posted: **Sat Aug 22, 2009 5:22 pm**

Been working on some more of the longeron`s bracket`s in the radio room and placed the two upper longeron`s to show how they would fit

Posted: **Sat Aug 22, 2009 9:08 pm**

Looking really first rate Lucky.I have the front frames you will need to start hanging the longerons to.The flight deck will be one very involved assy. to be sure.

Posted: **Fri Aug 28, 2009 3:43 am**

The jigs look first rate! But the question I have is how the frames are going to be kept in alignment during construction. What I'm trying to say is how are the frame going to be kept perpendicular to the fuselage centerline and also centered on the fuselage centerline? I've seen lots of projects in jigs (fixtures) but never clues about frame alignment. Could someone expand on this?

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Jig number 2

Jig number 2

Lucky

Jig

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Fixture