I’m pushing hard to have the wings done and out of the shop before the December holidays. I really don’t want to be moving the wings around outside in the snow. So I’ve scheduled Dave Rogers and John Sannizzaro to help me get the left wing outboard skin done in one marathon session. So until that’s done, I’m doing a bunch of clean-up stuff like fitting bellcranks and pushrods.

Because I’m using the SafeAir pitot mast and a heated AN-5812 pitot tube, I can’t follow Vans’ instructions on routing the pitot line. If you look a little earlier in this page, you’ll get all the details on how I decided to use both solid aluminum and plastic pitot lines. When I final-fitted the bellcrank with the solid pitot line in place, I found out that I have some rubbing between the line and the bellcrank pivot.

So…I had to remove the existing hard line and hand-bend a joggle into a new piece of tube, then fit that into the wing. What a pain in the ass. I used a Click-Bond tie-wrap anchor, attached with structural adhesive, to hold the joggle in place on the spar web. Problem solved.

Re-formed pitot line