ALPHA 1 gimble teardown

[THEFERMANATOR]

Well I got a little more done today. I used a pressure washer to knock the loose stuff off and then I used some diamond embedded foam pads on the end of my die grinder(can get em at LOWES, HOME DEPOT, and even WAL-MART). And finished up with a 1" round wire brush on the end of a high speed drill. Came out pretty nice afterwards.


And here's a couple of pics of the trim sender wires where they go through the gimble.

looking straight in, let's you see how tucked in there they are.

Then my day came to a terrible ending. This pic shows why it is so crucial to get the hose clamps placed properly. The previous person who redid the gimble didn't get the hose clamp and it allowed the clamp to contact the gimble when it was trimmed down and it cracked the helmet where the exhaust bellows goes. Not a real big deal, but cracks have to be fixed in aluminum or else they'll spread to other areas in the future. You can make out the crack in between the red lines.