Accomplished last night:

Cut a new hole in the cowl for fill tube.
Widened glow igniter hole.
Drilled new hole through firewall for fill tube
Drilled out the fill nozzle on fuel tank
Replaced red plastic spinner with my aluminum spinner. Wondering if the 2.5 inch spinner I have for my 61 FX will fit on the 46 AX. Might look better than the 2.25.

Measured out a piece of 5 ply to cut and install into the fuse to hold battery and receiver. I might cut out a flat piece and cut holes in it like my Avistar, or I might just epoxy in two pieces of small dowel and use Velcro strips. Still trying to decide. I also don’t want to screw up the CG, since if I epoxy something in, the choices of battery placement are severely limited. Thoughts? I probably should have taken pics to show the space I have to work with. The attached screenshot from the manual will have to do.

Most annoying thing about cowl planes is you have to remove the muffler to get the cowl off. So you had better make sure entire engine compartment is absolutely done before putting the cowl on and bolting up the muffler. I had to take everything off including the engine to drill that new fuel tube hole, and when I got everything bolted back up I noticed I forgot that little 2 inch piece of fuel tubing that goes on the engine from the mixture to the carb. Sigh! Had to rip everything apart again. My own fault for not checking!

That and the smell of fiberglass while cutting. Ugh. I set up a small fan at the end of the room to blow across. Isn't fiberglass dust supposed to be dangerous? I wore a surgeon's mask anyway.

I think for the fuel mounts I'll just try to brace it somehow. It doesn't seem too bad if I'm not going to attach the batt/rx but it's still so flimsy. See the second attached pic, although it's kind of tough to see.

Plugging along! Hoping to get to the field on Sunday.