I had prewired the wingtips in my garage, thank goodness. With the temp at 100 degrees I don't think that I could think well enough to wire anything. I connected the wires to the terminal blocks on the wing end rib s and then installed the tips with all those #6 screws. I then had my hangar neighbor come over to observe the lights for an operational check. They all worked correctly, Yippee!
I had drilled a 3/8" hole in the fuselage bottom, right under the fuel selector in the event of a fuel leak in the tunnel. Today I riveted a rudder cable fairing over the hole hoping that it will create a negative pressure in flight to drain any leaking fuel in the tunnel. When I start flying I'll tape a piece of yarn close to the hole and see if it is sucked into the hole, proving that it would drain leaking fuel. We'll see?
I had to climb into the cockpit and lie on my back to install the pitot airspeed and AOA tubes to the Dynons through the subpanel. I thought I might not get out because of all the sweat, but I completed the task. I also installed the cabin vent tubes to the NACA inlets since I was already sweaty. A airport bum aquaintance of mine came by just at the time I was trying to withdraw my body from under the instrument panel, and handed me a large styrofoam cup of iced tea with lemon. He saved my life!!
Left wingtip installed and the lights worked great.
Fairing over the fuel drain hole.
The green (airspeed) and blue (AOA) tubes connected to the Dynons through the subpanel.
