With the new parts in hand, it was time to notch the rear flanges of the two nose ribs, HS-00006, so that this part of the flange would fit between HS-810 and HS-814. Doesn't make a lot of sense on paper until you look at the actual parts and realize that the actual rear flange on these parts is a bit to long to fit between these spar doublers. Van's plans say to notch 1/4" off of this piece, DON'T DO THAT! Just test fit the part in there and see how much you need to remove. It was a lot closer to an 1/8 or maybe 3/32 at the most. I'm learning that the plans callouts for many of these notches is too much and you're better off actually seeing how much you need to remove instead of just blindly following the plans. With that little task done, it was time to start on the edge cleanup and deburring of 10 parts that make up the ribs/skeleton structure. Plug in the scotchbrite wheel and off we go. Not exactly exciting work but has to be done. With the basic edges smoothed out, it was time to get into all of the little notches. This can be a huge pain if you have nothing more than a file and some scotchbrite pads to work with. Fortunately during my wait time for the new parts to arrive I came across this GREAT tip! Take a 1" scotchbrite wheel, cut it into pie shaped pieces, shape it with your knife down to something usable one a Dremmel tool and voila, you have a prefect deburring tool to get into all of the notches in these rib parts. Even using this little tip it still took a while to debur all of the edges. So three hours of nothing but parts prep and making a neat little deburring tool. Not too exciting but again, one of a million little tasks that needs to be done. Google this and you will find a few references on VAF as well as YouTube. Pictures courtesy of VAF.