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Fuselage November 2007 Updates November 24, 2007 Headset Jacks and Wiring.... - 5.0 hrs Yesterday I Dad and I went over to Jim's to start his engine again. This time was perfect. He ran it at 1000 rpm for 3 minutes and then shut it down with the mixture control. PERFECT JIM! While I was there he gave me some pointers on how he did the fiber glass bottom for the rudder. Today I cut the hole in the back with a hole saw and then filed it out a bit. I need to find the plan sheet to continue on so I started on something else. I had decided to install the headset jacks in the side ribs just in front of the 704 bulkhead. This is just in front of the wing spar area. I drilled the holes up high so they won't show much. When you have your own plane you end up leaving the headsets in it so this should work well. I ran the wires from the audio panel thru rubber grommets. Once that was done I could see it would be much better to re run the wire thru the grommets so I pulled the wired out from the tail and redrilled the grommet holes for the next larger size and reran all of the wires thru the panel ribs. Last I mounted the current limiter fuse on the firewall and fabbed up another copper connector to run from the relays. The other side of the fuse will run to the alternator. This website was built to document my work in compliance with the FAA requirements needed to certify my aircraft. My experiences and comments are by no means to be considered as instructions on how to build any aircraft.