Thanks to the leadership of Our Elected Officials™, I won’t be working Fridays for the rest of the fiscal year (that’s the end of September for all you non-government folks) and today was the first day off. They call it a furlough, but I like to think of it as an unpaid holiday – helps me to not focus on the money we’re diverting from Whitney’s tuition to pay our bills.

But an extra day off every week will be great for progress on the RV, so there is a bit of a bright side to government incompetence.

First up today was fitting the baggage compartment tunnel cover.  The fit on this part was, shall we say, crappy…I had to apply some kinetic manipulation (i.e., a block of wood and a hammer) to get the rear flange to fit correctly.

The fit still isn’t great, but I was able to get screws in all the mounting holes without enlarging them.  Good enough for government work…if I had been working for the government yesterday.

With the baggage tunnel cover in place, I moved on to the baggage area flap covers which isolate the flap actuator arms from the rest of the baggage compartment.  These were a piece of cake…drill holes to final size, debur, dimple the nutplate rivet holes, and attach the nutplates.

That’s the end of the baggage compartment work, it’s on to the seats.