Began fabricating a pair of custom access covers that will cover not only the standard access door for the elevator pushrod attach point, but also extends upward to cover the area the empennage/fuselage fairing would have covered. The reason the fairing isn't going to cover this area is because I'm going to cut it off. This will make the fairing easier to remove and replace.
1. Fitted the stock access covers.
2. Cut out pieces of stiff cardboard and laid them above the covers. Marked and trimmed them to fit the space required.
3. Laid out cut lines on a sheet of 0.025" aluminum sheet.
4. Cut out, trimmed, filed and sanded the covers.
5. Drilled the four lower attach holes using the stock covers as drill guides.
6. Began marking the new covers for the next trim line that will be required, the curved openings where the elevator control linkage will pass.