Lots of little things today. First up, I installed some #6 nutplates in the main spar to attach the access panel. Apparently I didn’t take any good pictures of the actual nutplates. But here are 3 of the 6 screws installed. I didn’t do the last two on this side (or the 5 on the top side) because I need some angled nutplates. I’ll explain more when they get here.

After a few more work meetings, I decided to grab the 7 z brackets and get the nutplates installed. This was fairly straighforward. Here’s some pictures.

Here’s a shot of the backside so you can see my pretty shop heads.

As a summary of the night, I laid out all 7. Let’s see….7 brackets, 6 rivets each…

Then, quite late in the evening, my 37 degree tube flaring tool arrived.

So of course I ran out to the garage, flared the two fuel pickup tubes, and sliced some cuts in the aft end (as a poor-man’s strainer, just like the plans say to do).

And rinse and repeat for the other tank.

I even held the rib in place to see how close to the aft inboard end it comes. Pretty close.

1.5 hours on the ER tanks. 54 Rivets.