Yep, my prevailing trend of not getting nearly as much done as I want to in the shop has continued over the past couple of days.

I did get a good 45 minutes of sanding on the wheel pants in, with 3 of the 4 halves ready for micro-finishing (no pic of those).

I also continued on with my sideline tasks before I get back onto the upper cowling final tweaks I need to do (more on that in a bit).

I pulled the prop spinner side gap filler pieces blank off the spinner, pulled the peel ply and cleaned up the edges.  Now when it comes time to create the filler pieces, I’ll have the blank ready to create those with.

In addition, I pulled the GIB lower seat hole cover off its layup board, measured out 8.5″ diameter and cut that before sanding the edges smooth.

I then did a quick check of it in place, which it fit a treat… Voila!  I’ll add a few spots of Velcro around the perimeter to attach it and then call it done and good.

I did note that the squirrels attacked yet another light.  They are quite clever in gnawing away the cord with very little left to splice back onto.  I disassembled the light end, pulled some more cord out so I had some wire to work with, and in about 15 minutes I had the 2 inop lights back up and running.

I also spent a good little bit of time using the Dremel tool and files to trim and clean up the edges of the gas cap tether securing tabs.  Again, these are 0.036″ thick 316 stainless steel.  After cleaning them up, I then bent the tabs 90° in prep for mounting them to the bottom of the gas caps, respectively.

I also spent some time determining my filler and layup plan for the top dead center CAMLOC position on the top cowling, since the current gap (0.085″) between CAMLOC tab and top cowling results in the cowling getting pulled down too much and the outer edges bulging a bit.

My sequence in dialing in the top cowling was to get the aft stiffener in place first, then work each minor issue from there.  This will be the first of a few final alignment tweaks between cowling and its fuselage-side mounting flanges.

Due to Jess’s busy schedule, and some medical stuff going on with her grandmother, I wanted to treat her to a nice dinner tonight… so the top cowl top position will get worked tomorrow.

Still inching forward!