First on the plate for today was to rivet the nut plates for the forward lower consoles that I drilled in the previous session.Then I turned my attention to my the front seat ramp. There’s not a lot to do here. A few nut plates to match drill and then deburr and its ready for priming. There are two tabs that need to be removed. Shown here.The dremel makes quick work of them.  I completely deburred all the parts for the front seat ramp and dimpled the appropriate parts. Then the directions instruct me to turn my attention to the upper side consoles. One problem. I don’t have the upper consoles. They aren’t even on my inventory, so I’m a bit stumped as to why they are in the directions at this point, or why they are missing from my inventory. A call to Van’s Aircraft on Monday should answer the question.Additionally, today I bought primer for the interior parts of the plane. I’m going with PPG light grey primer for the interior. The final interior color will be very dark grey. I’ve seen both light and dark interior cockpits, and just like in a car, a light cockpit means lots of reflections.   

After a ton of deburring and cleaning up in the last shop session it was time to dimple many of the parts for the floors of the cockpit. For the floors I needed the c-frame to dimple many of the areas. But for the other parts the hand held tool worked just fine. After I completed all the dimpling it was time to turn my attention to the front cockpit side consoles. On the left (shown below) the fuel selector valve will be fitted.I needed to fit the cover plates in place and drill the auxiliary longhorns for the nut plates that would hold the outsides of the cover plates. Not shown, is marking the hole for the fuel selector valve. Drilling of the nut plates was straight forward. 

First up today, I prosealed the intersection where the wing will meet the fuselage. If there is ever a fuel leak, hopefully this can prevent or slow ingress to the cockpit area. And then I spent the remainder of the time demurring parts.