Installed oil cooler Scat today. Fun fact, in the UK they call band clamps "Jubilee clamps". I happened on these surplus at the yard store about a year ago and bought them for I think probably $0.50 each. I'm gonna guess that they're surplus Hawker stock

I also got a discrepancy resolved thats been bothering me for a while. The RV14 plans and the Vans turntable view both show an extra brace between the starter and the alternator. That brace didn't come with my B&C alternator, so I threw it out there on VAF to see if it was really necessary. Somebody else on VAF was questioning the same thing and volunteered to run it to ground.

He ended up calling Vans, Lycoming, plane power and B&C. Long story short, plane power supplies it with their alternator as additional support against vibration etc. B&C says their alternator is balanced right and doesn't need it.

While I was looking up in that general area I went ahead and drilled the #19 weep hole in the low spot of the snorkel per print.

I also drilled, countersunk and installed the fwd cowl baffle strips, and just some general cleanup around the plane and shop. finished off by tidying up the sika edges around teh windscreen in preparation for filling in the gaps where teh spacers were and doing the final fillets tomorrow