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Drilled the holes in the Gascolator bracket

I removed the rudder pedal assembly so I could get a good shot at drilling these holes. The gascolator on the forward side of fuselage will be bolted on later. I used my unibit to start the hold in the bracket. Then when I reached the 5/8" mark on the bit, I moved to the forward side of firewall. When I went over to the forward side, I found that the %^&* stainless steel metal in the firewall had a ragged cut and almost looked like a flower of metal blooming around the 5/8" hole. I used a small pair of needlenose pliars to push the flower edges of the hole back inside the hole. Then when I used the unibit on the forward side of the firewall, it removed the excess metal and made a nice clean hole in the firewall.

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