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Dowel Extractor

While repairing a model airplane after a hard landing, I discovered that the wing alignment/hold-down dowel at the center of the wing had broken off during impact, and a small portion of it protruded from the leading edge. To neatly remove it, I found a length of brass tube that closely fit over the dowel and used a Moto-Tool and a cutoff disc to form jagged teeth at end of the tube. I chucked the...
PARDON THE INTERRUPTION
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