Chapter 25 – Vortilons, paint, etcetera

I started out today by peeling all the tape off the right wing vortilons with the front tips painted blue, and then taped them all up but for the black stripe in the center exposed.

I then shot the right vortilons with black paint for the center stripes.

I then sanded down the micro on the left vortilons and epoxy wiped those.

After sanding the blemishes off a couple of the wing bolt hole covers, I then shot those with white paint.

As well as the right rudder gust lock.

With my rudders back from Phil’s shop, I mounted the left rudder into the winglet (pic 1) and then taped it up (pic 2) for glassing the left rudder gust lock… hopefully tomorrow.

On the aft nose/avionics cover glare shield I trimmed the rubber edge seal and RTV’d it into place on the glare shield’s aft lip.

And then did pretty much the same on the Turtledeck’s lip, RTV’ing the edge seal into place and securing it with tape while it cures overnight.

And with that, I called it a night.  I’ll continue to press forward on a lot of final glassing of “minor” (read: non-airframe) components and painting in prep for the wings getting buffed out and ceramic coated.

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