I've been working on the camper for the last few weeks, taking down the canvas and repairing rotted wood in the rear beam so I haven't done much on the plane other than occasionally filling in and smoothing over the gaps on the cooling fins and NACA vent on the top cowling. It's almost perfect but not quite yet. All in good time.
But I went to the hangar today and cut the big hole hole out of the filtered air vent housing and then, using the reinforcing plate, match drilled the attachment holes and then, using the nutplate jig (one of my best purchases when I was building the RV-7A), drilled attach holes and then riveted on nutplates.
Felt good to be working on things again.
Oh, also, my first grandchild -- Dexter Michael Collins -- was born on October 2, 2020 in the evening.