Tonight as just laying the groundwork for getting back into wiring-related work. The first step for that was getting the forward upper skin and baggage door removed. I last installed these when I was getting started on the cowl, and because of the way the upper right firewall sort of floats relative to the baggage door, I made liberal use of duct tape to hold everything in place.
Problem is, that was…checks notes…oh wow, almost two years ago. Unsurprisingly, the duct tape did not come off cleanly:
Handling the residue wasn’t too awful, though. I put an old towel over the affected areas, wet it liberally with acetone, and left it to soak for fifteen minutes or so. After that, the residue scraped off easily with a plastic razor. Some scrubbing with an acetone-soaked rag took care if the final cleanup, and things were looking nice again:
I repeated that step on some other parts as well, though I still need to clean up the actual forward upper skin.
And of course, this being Texas, opening up the area behind the panel exposed a few mud dauber nests that needed to be cleaned up, like this rather impressive bit of engineering that was attached to one of my voltage regulators:
That was it for tonight – next I can maybe move on to more practical work.