Pam helped me rivet the top forward skin on. After a few sessions, we finished all but for rivets that are hard to get to, so I will use a pulled rivet in those places.
Installed the tail light and strobe wiring through the fuse aft bulkhead and got it working. I choose to route the wiring through a hole located in the center of the aft bulkhead between the two bolts located on the lower rudder bracket, drilling a 1/4" hole through the center of the tie down bracket.
Finally got around to cutting a slot out of the bottom of the bottom cowl to clear the fuel drain installed in the gascolator. Also started assembling the various antenna cables. Borrowed a great little tool from Ken that makes all the cuts on the cable to install the BNC connector. What a great tool! Not sure where this particular tool was purchased but you can find cable strippers at Radioshack.
Painted my panel two days ago with Jetglo Stone Grey. I am really impressed with the paint itself. My work with it turned out okay. There are a few fisheye bubbles and lots of tiny ones, but they are not very noticable. I am pleased with the end result. I installed most everything back in the panel hopefully for the last time. Now to get it all wired.
Installed two Comant 122 comm antennas on the bottom of the center fuse on the left and right outboard bays about an inch aft of the aileron push tube holes. I removed the primer from the inside of the bottom skin, and riveted the antenna reinforcement plate to the bottom skin and the next to outboard seat rib.
Test fitted my radio stack after finishing installing the mounts. I attached the SL-30 and PS Engr PAR100EX trays together with pieces of 0.040. Had to put a joggle in them because the tray for the PAR100EX is slightly wider at 6.31 inches versus the SL-30 tray at 6.25". Also anchored the SL-30 tray on vertical angles riveted to the subpanel. The whole structure is very sturdy and solid.
Removed the aileron from the right wing and stored it. Cleaned the wing up nice to get off all the dust and bug stuff that has collected over the past many months of sitting up. Trimmed the right side aft spar center section bars from 1/16" at the top tapering to zero at the bottom, same as the left side. Got the edges cleaned up nice and smooth. Marked the 3" lines for the bottom screw holes on the wing inboard bottom skin per manual. Still need to bevel the edges of the wing spar where they insert into the fuse slot to make insertion easier.
Started the tedious task of deburring and edge-smoothing all the various bulkhead parts to get them ready to prime. Has a few places on a couple of bulkheads where the flanges overlap each other. Don't know if I should clip these so the skins will lie flat or what.
