I started out today whipping up some micro and slathering up my repair on the right strake leading edge, and finishing off the micro’ing of the right longeron, as well as adding some to the inside of the slanted edge of aft nose/avionics cover.

I had some micro left over in the cup, so almost on a dare I applied it to the perimeter lip of the nose hatch… I had JUST enough to cover the lip.

With a good application of micro curing, I then made up an 8-32 threaded insert on the lathe for the canopy internal lock micro-switch block second screw hole.

I’m reusing this pic from yesterday to give an idea of how I floxed the second threaded insert into place for the canopy internal lock micro-switch block.

I then taped up plastic over the cabin so that I could sand the left side longeron and forward fuselage without covering the inside of the plane with dust.

Here is a before shot (pic 1) and then an after shot after I spent a good few hours sanding (pic 2).

I then did a good bit of sanding on the right side as well, here on some contrast and compare pics of left vs right side, both sanded…. note the intersecting lines of the where the aft nose/avionics cover intersects the front corner of the canopy at the canopy bottom edge line.  This is what those aft corner layups were all about on the aft nose cover (to fix the intersect line).

A closer shot of the right side canopy-fuselage-aft nose cover intersection… yeah, some very slight bit more tweaking required.

I also grabbed this shot to show that the line between canopy skirt and the aft nose cover is no longer some gaping hole like the grand canyon!

Pressing forward.