Title: More edge rolling
Couple hours this afternoon while the weather was nice to roll the middle section of the left elevator, the long sections like this are tedious as it can be physical work at times to motivate the aluminum to achieve the shape you want. Just lots of bending with different sized bars and different configurations. I use curtain rods, steel conduit pipe, wood dowels and PVC pipe to get the shape needed. One technique that I use is from another builder like most everything we do. Take two pieces of pipe, lash them together essentially with zip ties, place the sheet metal in between the two pieces of pipe and bend. That keeps the sheet nice and straight and also keeps a nice smooth curve shape on the metal itself. Lots of back and forth with the various arsenal of tools and after a few hour and my arms and hands nearly worn out, it was close enough to cleco together. Still not happy with the shape yet as there is some pillowing and it's still too much strain on the holes to make this the final fitment. I will let this sit for the night and hope the metal relaxes into this final shape a little more on its own. Will revisit this section again tomorrow. In the meantime the nice UPS driver dropped off the new 6' section of hinges so I can get back to installing the hinge section tomorrow as well.


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