Another day inside the cabin. Having redone the interior brake lines/system I turned my attention to the overhead brake unions at the actuators on the pedals. These were never finalized due to a shortage of the ferrules and inserts necessary to make the unions. Having recieved these parts on Wednesday afternoon I set about restoring each union with the aforementioned parts, torqing and then saftying each as I did. There are still some to finish tomorrow. Another part that arrived was the long awaited rudder cable exit fairings. Simple pressed metal parts (left and right) which enabled me to now fix the rudder cable at the exits and then fit these for final installation. Some trimming was required off both the male and female parts - the hole needed opening on the fuselage for instance, but ultimately a good fit was achieved and marked for match drilling and then riveting. There will likely be a tiny bit of filling with resin filler to get a smooth flush finish which will be most aerodynamic. Lastly, with the parts and all the required tools and skills/practice still about after the brake line redo, I decided to give the fuel vent lines some attention. We deviated from the standard Vans method of running the lines in the cabin walls and out the floor, and instead followed the Rocket F1 method of coiling the vent line in the wing root and then exiting the egress just through the root bottom skin. This is becoming the preferred method of venting for most RV builders and is well proven as effective and has several advantages over the standard method if executed properly. Following some research and advice by respected builders I coiled the lines around an appropriately sized cylinder to get roughly a 3" radius to fit inside the tank root. The two ends were bent to meet the already installed coupling in the tank and to exit the bottom skin in the root. The I wetn about fabricating the vent egress itself from an AN fitting as suggested. cut off the end at 45deg machined off the thread on the protruding end, opened up
