Another short day of small jobs. I cleaned up the partly cured edges of the scoop and hatch from yesterday but give the epoxy was still a little soft I moved on.

I worked on the hatch interior. Mainly getting the foam so it would blend with the hatch edges and I smoothed it out where I could. There are several areas that are just not accessible. I did my best and then used thick micro to plug the surfaces I could reach and then peel ply.

While its a little rough I did choose to hard shell. Tomorrow I’ll add some glass where strength in needed on this inside hellhole area.

Not prize winning here either. It will be made strong with some glass layups and I have great access.  It is best to do all this now before a hatch lip reduces the area I have to deal with these insides.

Another small side job today was to deal with the sump fuel drain. I dug up my position holding plug carefully and then did a flox corner type of foam removal around the circular hole. I then very carefully applied pure then micro using the fuel safe EZ epoxy. I finished off with some peel ply to prevent the micro sliding into the hole and mucking up the threads. The drain will be proud of the bottom unfortunately. It is at the low pint in the sump where it has to be.

This is where the scoop will go and you can see the challenge ahead where I will have to cut into the hatch to make this all fit and be removable.

Another view of the scoop. Yes it is always dark now when I leave work.