A little more progress...

I only had a little bit of time to work on the patch panel tonight, but I did get the panel to about 85% done.

Here's a bad shot of the area that's been cut out:



It's hard to tell from this photo, but there is a whole lot of shaping that has to be done on this area. It's turning out to be a lot trickier than I thought it would, but it will get there.

Here's what the patch looks like at the moment:


There are several gentle curves in the metal, and several creases as well. You can see how wavy the panel ended up being, but it fits! The area this is going into is shaped so oddly that I have to keep working the panel with a hammer and dolly (seen behind the panel above) on each little section to get it to line up.

Here's a side view, you can start to tell how oddly this thing is shaped:


More views:


I was going to take a shot of how it all fits together, but the batteries in the camera died. That will have to wait until next time.