I left the nut plat rings out of these holes until now so that the hole would be a bit bigger while I was reaching through there with a bucking bar.

I think I may have mentioned in a previous entry that I added a .032 spacer ring between the under side of the skin and the nut plate ring so that the nut plates would be recessed a bit further.

The reason is taht I've seen a bunch of these where the cover is pillowed between the screws, and I thing that the reason might be that when people are making the gasket out of wet pro seal, they likely crank the these down too much. I wanted a bigger gap so that I could have a thicker gasket with bit more cushion and hopefully I can minimize pillowing.

At any rate, I buttered the nut plate rings and spacers with pro-seal, riveted them on. I had previously smeared a bit of boelube in the nut plate threads with a q-tip to prevent pro seal from sticking in there.

I had also previously coated the access plates with a film of turtle wax to act as a mold release.

I laid down a bead of pro seal on the nut plate ring flange, covered the whole thing with Saran Wrap, and then screwed down the access plates through the Saran Wrap until they were flush. In a couple of days I will attempt to take this apart and hope that I have a gasket in there.