{"id":161,"date":"2009-12-21T08:21:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T16:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/?p=161"},"modified":"2009-12-21T08:21:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T16:21:29","slug":"the-left-sub-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"The left sub-panel&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was able to get the metal parts for the left sub-panel cut out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/almost-finished.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-162\" title=\"almost finished\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/almost-finished-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/almost-finished-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/almost-finished.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because I only have one .125&#8243; cutter left, I needed to go very slowly and take very small &#8220;bites&#8221; out of the material.\u00a0 The panel is 6061-T6 aluminum, 0.062&#8243; thick.\u00a0 At the feed rate I used and taking .01&#8243; per pass, it took four hours and forty-six minutes to cut.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the result of all that time:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/left-sub-panel1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-164\" title=\"left sub-panel1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/left-sub-panel1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/left-sub-panel1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/left-sub-panel1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I installed the &#8220;starter&#8221; push-button into the panel to see how it would fit with the test engraving of the light plate that I did.\u00a0 The test light plate is made of card stock that I engraved on the Mini-24.\u00a0 Below is a close up of the engraving.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/left-sub-panel-lightplate-detail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-163\" title=\"left sub-panel lightplate detail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/left-sub-panel-lightplate-detail-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/left-sub-panel-lightplate-detail-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/left-sub-panel-lightplate-detail.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of hard to see in this picture, but the result is very nice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/left-sub-panel2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-165\" title=\"left sub-panel2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/left-sub-panel2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/left-sub-panel2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/left-sub-panel2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The three rectangular cutouts at the top are for the landing gear indicators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was able to get the metal parts for the left sub-panel cut out. 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