Fuel tank bolts

Mary was out of town today, so I had the whole day to work on the airplane. Too bad I didn't get very much done. I can't close up the wings until I get the wiring conduit installed, and I don't have it yet because Van's left it out of last week's order. I can't work on the fuel tanks without taking the wing out of the cradle, and I want to avoid taking the wings in and out of their rack too often to reduce the risk of dropping one. And of course I can't get started on the fuselage until the wings are out of the garage so I have some room to get to it.

One of the only real things I got accomplished, aside from cleaning up the workshop a bit, was torquing down the bolts that hold the fuel tank to the wing spar:

The other worthwhile thing I did was to hook the pitot tube up to my 12V bench power supply to verify the heater works. It got real hot like it's supposed to, and drew about 7 amps, both hot and cold.