After a couple of days of grinding and welding to shape the keel leading edge, which I reduce to just a few seconds in this video, I start fitting the bronze keel bolts. Elsewhere, Hazel can be spotted doing some upgrade work for her boat, my mini lathe gets a good workout, and there's a brief mention of the water tank breather vent.

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Tony

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hi i'm tony this is
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apache we're building a cruising
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sailboat
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and at the moment we're working on this
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this kill construction that you see
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behind me um as you may well be aware
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there was no video last week because
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i basically did this
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for the whole weekend
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but things are starting to take shape
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now as you can see you've got the first
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two
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of the bronze kill bolts in position
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and uh
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all ground up and shaped obviously i
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fitted seven in between these sections
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cross sections in there that the kill
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box attached to
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and i'm attaching them
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first of all with these these homemade
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long nuts that i've made
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that 16 millimeter 5 8 inch kill bolts
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um
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obviously have a
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nut on the top where they go through the
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floors of the boat and that'll be a 5 8
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unc nut so
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i just i decided to stick with that and
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make these 5 8 unc
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long nuts that are welded in the keel
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that the bronze bolts screw into
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so it was the first job to cut off some
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bits of of steel
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shape them drill a hole up the middle
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cut the thread in there and then put
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this
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hold up there put the shoulder on the
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top end so they locate
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in the plates i've got in the keel
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and these bronze bolts screw into them
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uh
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uh
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uh
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so
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uh
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foreign
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that should be
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what you doing here hello i'm draw
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filing
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yeah yeah
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it's good
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oh hazel hold it up
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you've been polishing haven't you yeah
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let's come in nice see some finger marks
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let's come in
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have a look at that
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that's fitting for your bower yeah
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it's very nice doesn't it it does
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hey
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as you can probably tell i've also i've
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got this bit of plier here that i've cut
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as a template
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to locate the kill bolts this is marked
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off of
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the wooden keel timber wooden kill
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timber it's marked off with a kill
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which in turn is marked off the bottom
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of the boat so these holes give me the
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locations for the kill bolts
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um yeah that all comes off
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this is
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it all comes off
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and then we can see down inside and see
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the the cross members and the way it's
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going
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well my mini lathe has been doing a lot
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of sterling work this week
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um you may remember i bought this almost
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exactly a year ago actually
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and uh
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one of the things i knew at the time it
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would be
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used for was was in this keel bolt
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manufacturing cue bolt
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fabrication process
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and indeed it was so you've seen i used
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it to make those long nuts but also
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the bronze kill bolts themselves they're
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um
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the very front one is a 13 millimeter
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bronze rod and the other all the other
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ones are 16 millimeter bronze rods
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um and as you probably know bronze nuts
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that are you know available to buyer or
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unc sizes
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so um involves turning them down a bit
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well when i measured up those bronze
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rods they all were actually a little bit
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oversized anyhow
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so um the for example the 16 millimeter
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bronze rod which actually measured so
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slightly a bit more than that
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i had to turn down to 15.88 i think is 5
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8 on an inch
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to take the 5 8 unc thread
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so for the for the length of the thread
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of course i shall be doing the same on
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the top once the rods are in there i've
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got the measurements for the length of
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them i'll be cutting the length taking
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them out again
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turn them down and put the thread on the
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top end
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the 13 millimeter put a half inch thread
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on
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so that's what's at 12.7 millimeters
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isn't it um so we've done that and it's
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been great
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perhaps not the most powerful thing in
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the world as you may have noticed from
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the from the earlier videos it
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is
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i say not the most powerful beast
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and you have to learn how to work with
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it which means really taking fine cuts
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using it gently
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you've got
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a stepless speed adjustment on this
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potentiometer here so
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um and i have the feeling you need to
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get the things spinning fairly fast just
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to
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just for it to cut effectively but they
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do work and i'm very very pleased to
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have it and it's done as i say a great
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job this week
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much
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so
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yes
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how does that look
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foreign
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sorry
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okay i'll start that way around let's
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see
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uh
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uh
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didn't we yeah
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at the end of the day it does look
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pretty good doesn't it
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oh
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and that
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is it for this week
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um should be pushing on with this so
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there are in total 11 kill bolts so
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clearly another
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nine to get in
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um but they should go relatively quickly
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now i'm in a position to be fitting
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those
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certainly hope to have those all in
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position this next week i've got a bit
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of grinding still to do on the seams
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um but then we'll be ready to move this
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box into the other shed
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uh and then i've got a plan to make a
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sort of combined lead
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smelting pouring
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thing
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uh i should be making that and we'll be
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seeing about getting some lead
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on the melt and pouring that would
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certainly be interesting there's a
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couple of other little things that have
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been going on around and about this this
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very exciting piece of plywood
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is one of them this is part of the
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water tank breather system that is just
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about installed now i'm going to paint
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that before i fit it
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but that's where the the actual final
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vent comes through it's a mountain for
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the vent which has a gauze and it's
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stopped crew call is crawling up into
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the water tanks
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um
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but i'll show you that in due course and
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as i said i didn't get a regular youtube
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video out last week but i did get a
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video up on on the patreon page which is
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you know publicly accessible open to all
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uh if you're interested get over and
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have a look you'll see some of the water
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tank breather installation there
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um i say available to all
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i say that's it for now thanks for
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watching
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all that youtube stuff
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like comment subscribe or some sort of
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thing on that and a massive thank you to
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our patrons who support
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these videos this channel we'll see you
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soon
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so
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to you
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okay
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