More On and Off ...

... for the wheel fairings.
After sanding off the overlapping regions of the glassed bed for the brackets, I had to put the fairings back on, check for proper fit and cleco them together so I could match drill the holes for the inevitable nutplate installation  around the circumference.

But not all the holes were match drilled at this time, no, only three for now. Then the nutplates get installed and then ..... they get installed on the brackets again so the rest of the holes can be match drilled. I assume this is to provide for a better fit.

The nutplates get installed temporarily with the help of a screw to hold them in place while the first hole is drilled. Fortunately, these are for #6 screws which put up much less of resistance when being screwed on.

It was not too long before all three nutplates were installed on both aft fairings and daylight was fading.

To be continued...