Ok, but with a little touchup required…

First, here is a shot of the 3-ply carbon fiber layup, peel plied and taped, that makes up the left rudder lock (pic 1).  After an overnight cure, I then removed the tape and peel ply to reveal the actual rudder gust lock in raw form (pic 2).

I then cleaned it up and rough trimmed it a little bit before placing it back into position.  It still needs some final trimming and cleanup, and is a slightly rougher version than the right side, but it should clean up nicely.

I then pulled the tape and got busy prepping the left vortilons for the final front swath of blue paint.  I tried a tip using a certain glass cleaner as the degreaser prior to paint, and found it to be a bit too aggressive, as you can see some of the gray primer pulled off with the paint.  After a bit of sanding and cleanup with my old degreaser it was ready for paint.

I then first shot a coat of sealer, let that flash and then shot 2 coats of blue paint.  Voila!  The left, and now all, vortilons are painted.  Again, with a few touchups required.

I thought I had gotten pics of the left wing trailing edge fence mounting flange base layups after I laid them up, but apparently not.  Anyway, this is the next day after those cured… removed and peel ply pulled.

I then set the trailing edge fences’ mounting flange bases back into place, taped them to secure them in place, and then started checking fit of my posterboard mockups to then transfer those to the 1/4″ PVC foam to cut them out, first the inboard fence (pic 1) and then the middle fence (pic 2).

It was a bit later in the evening and I had to get out the door, so I’ll do the final outboard fence foam core cutting tomorrow.

I did want to note that I grabbed a pic of my N number graphics to send to my DAR to ensure they meet specs before I apply them to the winglets, especially since they’ll get ceramic coated along with the remainder of the winglet.

Still pressing forward to get this bird completed!