Last evening Dave left me a small bottle of
clear coat to go over the red paint. I
touched up several spots today. One on
the spinner, one on the fuselage near the fuel cap, the tops of the air vents
and a few other small places. Along with
these areas I also put clear coat on the canopy forward arms. I touched up a couple of small white spots
also. Then I tackled the wing seal. I set up my metal saw horses and put moving
pads over them. I pulled the spar pins
and pulled the wings out one by one. It
was not to difficult. I had previously
marked the wing roots where the skins needed to be cut back to allow for the
foam wings seals. I used my left and right snips to cut the
wing root skins back to the lines I made yesterday. The cut edge of the wing root skin came out
just fine. I deburred the edges and then
put the wing seal on the fuselage on the left side and pushed the wing
back in place. I did the same on the right
side.
The tube plugs I ordered came and I inserted
one on each end of the step tubes. These
plugs look good and finish of the tubes very nicely. The next engine run will have to wait until
next week.
