Serenity - Dec 13 2006

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Slowly hacking away

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Cut off wheel, Milling bit, grinding bit.

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Slowly chunks of styrene, resin and putty are cut out

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Slowly it takes shape

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Quite a bit of material has been removed.

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Here is a better view of the amount of material removed. Only in once place did I accidentally cut through to the other side. This was in one of the shuttle recessed areas so it is not too visible. I suppose I could push the thinning process but I risk punching through more and more so I will stop now and clean up the inside.