Today I spent most of the day working on a bunch miscellaneous items.

I started by fabricating my aileron stops. I am using a small delrin bushings around the aileron pushrod spacer to act as the stops.

After fabricating and installing I measured the deflection angles – I have 28 degs up and 16 degs down for each aileron. The specifications call for a minimum of 25 deg up and 15 deg down, so I’m within the standard range.

Next I drilled two holes in the fuel tank mounting bracket in order to attach the safety wire. These bolts are tightened snugly with a large washer in order to allow for separation from the fuselage in the event the wing is hit. The safety wire will prevent the bolts from prematurely backing out.

I also made some slight modifications to the position of my accessory bus fuse block. I needed to modify the position lower in order to allow for the forward top skin to be installed. I’ve modified the top skin with the optional access panel kits. The panel is held in place with nutplates and the bottom of the nutplates interfered with the fuse block. Now that I’ve lowered the position the top skin is ready to be installed.

Last but not least, I also secured the pilot’s stick wiring harness connectors, among other wiring bundles below the seat skins.