1. Made all the remaining paper templates for the baffle seals, including two more that will go under the cowl inlets.
2. Removed all the templates and laid them out in a 36" x 18" space to verify that I'll be able to cut them all from one piece of McFarlane Cowl Saver baffle seal material. (I already have a 3" wide roll of it, but many of the pieces can't be cut from only 3" of material.) I ordered the appropriate size piece -- at considerable expense for two-day shipping.
Since it's Thanksgiving week and I'll have to wait a few days to receive the baffle seal, I decided to do a couple other baffle-related projects:
3. I created a removable plug for the hole in the #3 cylinder baffle that is used to insert a spark plug socket extension. I cut three 1" circles from 0.053" scrap, cut one in half, filed a clearance notch in it, then riveted it to a full circle piece. Then I clamped the assembly to another circle piece, drilled a #8 screw hole through the center of both, and installed a nutplate in the "backside" piece. This gave me a neat little custom plug that will fill the hole, but still be removable for whenever I need to remove the upper spark plug on the #3 cylinder.
4. Located, drilled and clecoed one of the CB-1003D attachment tabs to the #2 baffle.
5. I was going to do the same to the #1 baffle, but I wasn't happy with how small the stock tab was. I decided to make a bigger one, so I cut one from some 0.040" scrap and drilled/clecoed it to the #1 baffle.