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Finish Kit Update August 2009 Updates August 16, 2009 More Wheel Pants and Gear Fairings.... - 6.0 hrs Ok enough fun for yesterday now back to work. Started out today on the gear fairings. Last check for fit and final triming. I cut the hinges to fit at 25 inches and marked the rivet holes at 1.5 inches. Drilled the on the press and deburred. Next I drilled the brackts for the front wheel. Used a step drill to 5/8. Will still have to open a bit to 21/32. What is up with that crap Vans! Moved back to fiberglass work on the wheel pants. Did a bit more triming and checking on the tire clearance. Then I mixed up a batch of beads, flox and cabosil per Don Hortons post on VAF on how to make a clean seam. Once it set up I used a scotchbrite disk to smooth the surface and I think this is going to workout. I need to do some wetdry sanding to clean them up and then fit the lower gear intersections. Man it was hot today. 99.... Last I mixed up some flox beads and epoxy to fill in and smooth out the inlet dams. I put some peel ply down to smooth stuff out and minimize additional sanding. We will see how that works out. This website was built to document my work in compliance with the FAA requirements needed to certify my aircraft. My experiences and comments are by no means to be considered as instructions on how to build any aircraft.