Still unseasonably warm January which is working out great for my fiberglass work.

There were a few holes in the floxed interface between the left tip and the skin so I re-taped it and applied some more flox to fill those spots. Also, filled the previously drilled holes on the right tip because I still wasn't happy with the alignment. Will redrill once cured.

Then laid up some flat pieces of glass to close out the trailing edge of the tips. Just two ply of BID fabric between plastic sheets. Let them cure overnight then cut to shape.

Inserted the trailing edge rib in the left tip and marked the end rivet holes. Used my new rivet fan to lay out the remaining holes. Riveted with solid -3s except the last two, used pull rivets for those. Then applied a layer of epoxy and flox to the rib and edge of the tip and installed the close out piece I made the day before. When it was all cured, I trimmed to fit and sanded smooth. Looks good.

Meanwhile, match drilled holes for the reinforcement strips using the wing skin as a guide. Pressed the strips right to the end rib expecting that it will extend beyond the tip fiberglass in many places. Intent is to use the reinforcement strip as a guide to add additional flox to to the tip flange to extend the edge distance in a few places where it is a little light. Once holes were drilled, I applied a flox mix to the inside of the tips and installed the strips on the left tip, holding in place with clecos as I went. There were a few places where the holes didn't quite align because the match drilling didn't account for the thickness of the fiberglass tip around the curves. I snipped the reinforcement strips in a couple places to relieve their tendency to buckle between clecos. Wiped Vaseline on the clecos to prevent them from getting stuck, worked well. Applied additional flox along the edge of the tip flange where reinforcement strip extended. Once cured, cleaned up all the extra flox and finished the edge of the flange. A little touch up to do, but seems to have all worked according to plan.