Between five and ten years ago on this very forum there was an exhaustive post w/pix on how to do just that as a layman. I'm sure it has been archived (no IRS here) for posterity. You seem to be posterity at the moment. It was one of the very best laid out, step-by-step pictorals ever on this forum.
jefe
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