Chapter 13/22/25 – Pushing nose finish

I started off today by marking the aft nose/avionics cover’s aft corners for trimming, which I did immediately after grabbing these pics.

After installing the aft nose/avionics cover back on the bird, and taping up some seams, I then finished adding micro to the front edge of the right longeron.

In addition, I laid up the final ply of BID on the damaged right strake leading edge.  I then peel plied that layup.

I also did a fair amount micro’ing on the left side as well, in the area in front of the strake along the longeron, and also around and under the canard and aft nose/avionics cover.

I then taped the canopy internal lock micro-switch block to the left sidewall of the avionics bay, forward of the instrument panel, to ensure it would not cause any clearance issues with the GNS-480 GPS navigator mounting tray.

Here’s another shot of the canopy internal lock micro-switch block on the left sidewall, which has a low enough profile to not interfere with the GNS-480 GPS navigator mounting tray (pic 1).  I then drilled the lower screw mounting hole with the micro-switch block in place (pic 2).

I finished drilling out the screw mounting hole and then prepped & floxed an 8-32 Nutsert into the hole (no pic).

And with that, I left the floxed the Nutsert to cure overnight and called it a night.

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