Cover prep
I hooked up the carbon monoxide detector and powered it up. Works great. I put it on the avionics bus, mainly because I don’t want it on while trying to crank the engine and it doesn’t have an on/off switch. There’s a little fan in the back of it that sucks air through the device. It has two wires that can be used to trip an external alarm. I might try hooking that up to the AF-3400 engine monitor. We’ll see. It beeps as well, but it’s not super loud.
The long list of stuff left is so daunting that I made up a short list of stuff to do this week and next. At the top of the list was painting the few remaining interior covers before our weather heads south. I pulled out the front center cover and realized I never bent the heat louvers. Using a couple pieces of angle and some clamps, it went pretty smoothly. I probably agonized over it more the past two years than it actually took to do it.
I smoothed the edges and then scuffed and cleaned it up along with the two seat pan covers and the lower baggage area cover. Ready for painting tomorrow.