The very thin coat of JB Weld seems to have worked a treat! It's kind of nice to fly around and know how much fuel one actually has in the tank.

This Summer I'm going to have to pull that fuel tank (major surgery!) and file down the welding flashing around the filler neck where meets the tank on the inside. While it doesn't interfere with the cork working, it makes it difficult to put in and out of the tank.

I may go crazy and put a proper sleeve for an actual fuel cap on it as well.

We had that rare window of acceptable weather, so up I went a couple days ago.

While the wind wasn't high, the front was crossing very slowly and the air was about as squirrelly as it gets. Not the big swing turbulence of Summer, mind you, just really uneven; I felt like I was flying down a backwoods dirt road at 60 mph rather than through the air.

I caught some nasty little bit of air on landing, and since I was a bit fast had already flared to slow, just did some pilot-y stuff to keep things okay - only to find myself making a pretty acceptable three point landing. Huh.