As I am getting into domestication mode in prepping my house for a ton of guests for my upcoming nuptials, I have been trying to continue to get key tasks done on the bird build as well.

I knocked down and final sanded the added micro on the both sides of the aft wheel pant tails.  I then epoxy wiped the new micro with a couple coats of West epoxy.

Although no pic, when I epoxy wiped the aft wheel pants above, I also hit the strakes lower leading edge micro fills (after final sanding) with epoxy wipes.

On the glassed spots on the inside of the aft nose cover, I razor trimmed and pulled peel ply on the previously delammed bare wood inside surface (pic 1), and did the same with a little edge cleanup on the front left corner layup (pic 2).

My goal was to get both side CS spar Clickbonds floxed/glassed in place, but it got too late too fast, so I only nugged out the final/top Clickbond on the left side.  Again, this is to secure the left wing root forward heat shield.

I plan on knocking out the pair of Clickbonds on the right side in the next day or two.

Although it took a few rounds, my final significant task was the epoxy wiping of the forward sidewalls, the avionics bay/aft nose substructure, the top forward nose, and the nose hatch perimeter lip, obviously on both sides.

And here’s a better shot of the epoxy wiped nose and nose hatch perimeter lip… again, from both sides.

My next major task will be to sand/wet sand all the epoxy wiped surfaces I’ve done over the past few days.  As I finish up the final fit and integration of the aft nose/avionics cover in relation to the canopy front skirt, I am starting in on the CS spar “outrigger/ wings” and the wing root forward heat shields, to be completed before the wings come off and flipped to finalize the micro finishing on each of those.  Since I don’t really want the firewall installed before paint, its cutting and install will come a bit later.

Still pressing forward… just in slow-mo for the next month!