My latest head scratching session led me to my final ELT antenna coax routing. I pop riveted a number of small cable mounts to the J stringer and drilled a hole for a snap bushing in the middle bulkhead. It's outside of the picture, but at the next bulkhead back, the coax runs up the bulkhead (alongside the static line) to the antenna location.
Here you can see the ELT coax run up the aft bulkhead. With that done, I measured the elevator pushrod and threaded the bearings in to the right length (at least according to the plans), then bolted it to the elevator bellcrank. It's starting to get closer and closer to done back there!
I've really wrung my hands over putting the top skin on. I want to have as much as possible done in the tailcone before the lid is on so I can limit the number of times I have to crawl back there! I think I'm finally at that point though. I clecoed the skin on, but I think I'm going to have to take it off and cleco it back on in different order. It all fits fine except for the aft right side, which is off by just enough to make the holes tough to get clecos into. I've found that for whatever reason, parts can fit perfectly one time, then if they are clecoed on starting in a different spot they can be way off. I just have to figure out what order to cleco the skin on so it stretches the right way.
