Greetings from Charleston, South Carolina!

Jess and are down here to roll in the New Year, and we hope you all are doing well!

This blog post again covers the past 2 days.

I first started off by measuring out my center 2.5″ internal conical depression in the sidewall and from that edge forward filled the cut sidewall rudder cable conduit channel with PVC foam, micro’d and pressed firmly into place.

I worked on some wire labeling and confirming the operation and control wiring of a couple of relays, which all checked out good.  I also did the final install of the battery bus (pics to follow soon).  In the few hours it took to do all that, the micro securing the foam in the sidewall channels pretty much cured… at which time I trimmed the excess foam, before wetting out and laying up 2 plies of BID over the foam and the sidewall edges of the channel that I had sanded and cleaned with Acetone.  After the layups were in place, I then peel plied them.

I then left these layups to cure overnight.

This morning I pulled the peel ply and cleaned up the edges of the layups.  I then marked the shallow diagonal lines from the wider embedded G10 washer narrowing going forward to the just glassed forward channel.

After cutting the top and bottom diagonal edges of the middle internal conical sections of the rudder cable spring channels, I then sanded and shaped the foam.  I also made “flox” channels on top and bottom edges of the foam and sidewall glass, where I filled them in with flocro.  For the channel internal foam I used micro before laying up 2 plies into the channel.  I of course ended the layups with peel ply.

I then left these layups to cure as Jess and I scurried off down here to Charleston, SC… again, to roll in the New Year!

Cheers to you all!  Happy New Year!

(And?!  STILL pressing forward!)