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Started work on the VA-112 drain flange

It's kind of tough to get this small piece in line with the hole in the skin. You can't stick your head in the tank and you can't see the skin from inside the drain flange hole from the outside. So I bought some rubber cement from Office Depot and temporarily glued the flange into position using a hand mirror from the inside to position it correctly over the hole. After a few minutes of letting the cement dry, I final drilled the holes in the tank skin, using the flange holes as a guide. The rubber cement held things in place just well enough to allow me to only use a couple of fingers to hold the flange in place for the drilling. Then I pulled the flange off and simply rubbed the cement off with my fingers. It comes off very easily. On the other tank, I will remove the blue stuff first. The cement has a tendency to dissolve the blue stuff.

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