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Fuselage September 2006 Updates September 4, 2006 Baggage area parts & Leftside Canopy Decks.... - 7.0 hrs Started out today finishing up the gear weldments. I still had 2 bolts on the bottom next to the 4 spar bolts. There was more than a 16th clearance so the plans say to make a shim washer to fill this gap or bend the weldment. Well that ain't gonna happen so time to make some shims. I got this finished and all bolts tight. Next was time to finish the rightside canopy decks. Same as yesterday this went a bit faster today. Now it was time to install the baggage floors for good. These came out sharp as they are already painted so it looks nice once I pop riveted them in place. I only got the left side done so I went ahead and installed the rear seat pan and just to check it out I also installed the forward covers. Just for grins I put the seats in and took some pics. Looking good. Move on to the other side tomorrow night. 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.