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		At the far left, the rear fuselage side skins have been removed for upgrading and the installation of the Alaska door kit. On the left, the sheet metal work is finished, as well as a rebuilt rudder. Prior to my involvement, most of the sheet metal work was finished and the aircraft was painted.
		At the far left is what the airplane looked like when I became involved. And no, that is not me in the picture. The first thing on the agenda was to install the new insulation material. This is the same aluminum backed foam that Cessna uses in their Citation jets. As you can see here, the Alaska door kit moves the aft cabin bulkhead rearward by two fuselage bulkheads.
		At left is an example of the workmanship detail with which we assembled the aircraft. Where many people would simply have glued the rubber welting to the bottom of the vertical fin, we punched holes to fit over every rivet to ensure the welting would stay attached and lay flat and straight after installing the fin.
		This Beaver has 3 metal fuselage fuel tanks, and wing tip tanks. To the left are before and after pictures of the fuselage tanks sumps.
		Here are two views of the fuel tanks before refurbishing.
		And now two views after installation. The fuel tanks were completely stripped inside and out. All new gaskets and seals were installed on the sending units, drains, and access plates. The tank mounts were lined with new cork abrasion strips. The sending units and the instrument panel gage cluster were sent to an instrument shop where they were calibrated to each other.
		All the rubber hoses were replaced, as well as new hose clamps and bonding jumpers at all locations. The fuel selector valve was completely refurbished, and a rebuilt fuel selector valve installed. The control cables in the picture actually go straight up from the selector, where they go around pulleys that are mounted to the bottom of the floorboard.
		A completely new tail wheel and strut was installed. The only parts reused in the finished product was a bolt, nut, and a couple of washers. Even the tire was new, as the only hours on the tire was the time used in flying the aircraft to Greeley, CO.
		At the far left is the fuselage below the rudder. At left is the rudder horn after reinstalling the rebuilt rudder after painting.
		This is the finished elevator trim mechanism after installation. If you look closely at many of the nuts and bolts, you will see that inspector's putty was used whenever a reassembly step was complete, and not before. This gave us a quick means of determining if any particular task was incomplete.