I final sized the holes for the rudder stops, then primed the mating surface of the tailcone skin and the rudder stops themselves. Set them aside to dry, and spent the rest of my shop time trimming and match drilling the right elevator tip.

I've started using my dotco with the cutoff disk Vans supplied for cutting the canopy. It works great for that and I figure since they sent two there's no reason not to use this one up on fiberglass since it's so much easier than a small cutoff wheel in a dremmel or a blade on a vibrasaw. After match drilling, I countersunk just using a dull 3 flute countersink in my deburring handle so I wouldn't ruin one of my good ones.


No real surprises here. Like the empennage fairing, it will require some tweaking during final fiberglass work, but at this point, I'm calling it good.