Another good day of work. Started off by taking the rt wing fuel tank outside so as to not stink out the house and my wife. I scotchbrited, acetoned, and wiped down the fuel sender mount area. I then mixed up the ProSeal, applied a light layer on the tank under where th rubber gasket goes (on the outside and directly under the sender), then mounted the fuel sender. I then gooped the living heck outta the thing (as you can see from the pics....uggg...the left wing was sooo much cleaner). For some reason this time it was so much more ungainly and I ended up just smearing it on over everywhere that anything could possible leak, Lord I hope that I never have to take that sucker off becuase it's gonna hold on to it like a tick on a bloodhound. I left it set outside in the garage all day (53 deg) and decided to let it sit overnight just to allow more of the offgassing to defray. Oh, btw, I highly recommend watching Kitplane Entusiast YouTube channel by Mark Pensenstadler. I viewed his video on this more times than I care to admit (
https://youtu.be/OW24qGLSVOM) on fuel tank sender installations. He's got a lot of experiance, is no-nonsense, and a pretty darn all around great guy (you can meet him at any Zenith Open Hanger days). Thanks Mark for sharing the stuff that you've learned over the years of all the planes that you've built.
Meanwhile, I deburred the leading edge on the top side and all of the leading edge rib inner flange of the top, scotchbrited them, brushed on Cortec, and cleco'd them back in place.
Moving on I worked on my fuel connection inspection hole cover to install it's nutplates. I used a borrowed rivet squeezer from my fellow builder (James) and the nutplate jig from another builder (Kevin, really, you gotta say his name like the 3-2-1 Penguins "Keviiiiiiin"). I had also gotten a nutplate jig from James but it turns out it was for the mini nutplates and Kevin had both sizes 8 and 10 for the standard sized nutplate. I had used all size 8 standard size on the left wing so used that one from Keviiiiin. I'm not really all that squeeze rivet savvy so I ended up drilling all of them out and reworking it. It turns out it was all about getting a good countersink dimple on both the plate and the nutplate. I ran the screw into plate holding the nutplate in place while holding an awl through the holes to keep the plate lined up. Then, holding the all, with one hand, the rivet with the other, and using my third hand held and squeezed the rivet squeezer. Perfect. I
At the end of the night, I decided that I had gotten sufficiently 'ok-ish' at squeeze riveting and, of coarse, drilling out squeeze rivets, and went ahead and installed the nutplates on my landing light mount. Turned out pretty good IMHO.