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Day 11 - Half day Gonna be away for half today / most of tomorrow and Sunday so I'll probably be a little light on getting stuff done. Forgot to mention that the first tube of E-6000 has given up the ghost. Thank you for your service. A couple of shots of the yoke. I cut away a little of the arm holes. I am not sure how it fits yet so I am being conservative with my hacking until I get to fit it. I have tentatively decided to follow @gmrhodes13 version of the bell support mentioned above and make a bracket and attach the bells underneath rather than drill, and potentially weaken, the shoulder edges. There is no harm in trying it out if it works, if not I haven't made any intrusive modifications. TBD. I started making the belt, which I'd like to work on while I'm out of town. I may have to hold off until I can get some chicago screws for mounting boxes. I started with E-6000 since I'm lazy and it seems like it's functionally the same as sewing or riveting. If not, well it's easy to add the fixes later. I purchased a roll of black drawer liner with a similar texture to what the floor mat is. It is glossy however so I am going to try and take off the shine with steel wool or similar. It's another hack so if it doesn't work I'll upgrade to the thicker version. I will be attempting to make my own belt pouches. I can't find a good source for the material I think I need so I am repurposing a music-stand bag. Again, this is a test to see if I can make them. The alternate is just buying, but I'm trying to save money to get the rest of the bits I need (gaskets, boots & bucket). Yes, I am taking a sewing machine with me on vacation.

Looking great. With your thigh glue areas you mentioned I really don’t see tons that would get in the way of approval. Overall it looks solid. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

If you head over to OddViking’s YouTube channel, he’s got a series covering these builds. He answers most of your questions there - and more [emoji4]