Author Archives: pclifton

Next I applied tape to the stab tip so I could lightly touch it with the sandpaper as I worked without removing any material. Scratching here isn’t necessarily a huge deal, as I’ll be refinishing the tip anyway, but I … Continue reading →

Much like with the stab tip, there are a few pinholes here to take care of, which would just require a little micro. But I didn’t want to mix up a batch of the stuff and only use a tiny … Continue reading →

Next up, time to remove all that extra material on the edges and sand to roughly match the profile of the bottom. Since my intent was to cover all of this with micro, I also beveled the edges a bit … Continue reading →

Next up was the light pad itself. The first thing I noticed was that the pad wasn’t actually flat, on each side of the seam it seemed to slop back a bit. So I started hitting this up with 40 … Continue reading →

Of course, this wasn’t exactly super precise, and I was conservative with the layout as well, so after making the initial cuts I spent a lot of time carefully expanding the cutout, with repeated trial fitting. I made another sort of … Continue reading →

One possible way to address this would be to not insert it all the way, taking care of the alignment issue when the mount holes got drilled. The problem with doing this is that the flange now doesn’t cover the … Continue reading →

And one trimmed tip slipped into place: