I spent most of the day at the hangar, and realized after I cut myself that one thing I forgot to bring from the house was some bandaids. But I have plenty of blue painter’s tape and lots of paper shop towels…

And this is what I cut myself on – a jury-rigged low-profile nut driver, made by grinding down a random 3/8″ driver I found in the tool box…

And why would I need a low-profile nut driver? I knew you’d want to know…

See that AN365 nut in the bottom center of the picture? There’s not enough space to get a regular socket on it, hence the ground-down nut driver.  Worked great, if I do say so myself…and I do.

Next to it is an AN bulkhead elbow fitting for the left fuel tank vent line.  I spent most of the day getting fittings prepped for the vent lines, including making the vents themselves out of other AN fittings –

These are relatively straightforward to make from standard bulkhead fittings, I just wrapped the not-to-be-modified ends with duct tape and chucked them in the drill press.  The portion that’s bright metal in the picture originally had threads, but I removed them with a vixen file while the drill press spun the fitting around (thanks for the idea, Mike!). I cut the finished ends to a 45-degree angle with the band saw, and cleaned them up with sandpaper and scotchbrite.

Vans recommends that the scarfed ends be protected by a screen to keep bugs and other  stuff from blocking the fuel vents, so I bought some window screen patches from Home Despot and broke out the JB Weld epoxy…

After the JB Weld cures – hopefully by tomorrow – I’ll trim away the excess screen and install the vents in the lower fuselage.