6/24/2006
After I FINALLY finished one of my front yard landscaping projects, I spent the rest of the afternoon and evening doing final preps for sealing the tanks up. I wanted to get this done today, but the landscaping took much longer than I anticipated, so they should get done tomorrow. I started by going over the ribs with a fine toothed comb to check where I needed to patch some thin spots that I missed. Then I installed the flop tube in the left tank. Here's the goop around the fitting and nut.
Then I deburred the rear baffles and installed the vent lines in each tank.
The Z brackets finally came off the spars, and they were deburred and then primed. Then I started working on getting the fuel sender installed in the left rear baffle. I had to place it in the second bay of the tank, so I marked it's location using the second Z bracket as a guide.
I drilled the holes, and cut the larger hole for the sender to go through with the fly cutter. Then countersunk and dimpled the parts for riveting the platenuts on.
5.75 hours