I spent 4 hours today cleaning out junk from my TE tube "hole", didn't
get to fly. I had to use both mechanical and liquid means to get out
a lot of what must be insect byproduct - reminds me of yellow/orange
ear was. Final status is that the static port of the hole is no longer
blocked but the pitot port remains blocked. Using a bicycle pump I put
some pressure on that port and it help air nicely at 10 psi (mindful of
JJ's warning I didn't put any more pressure on it). Time now to find
a "hole" expert - I will first see if the mechanic at the local
gliderport has any "holy" experience. JJ, one thing that bothers me
is that it seems possible that _no_ amount of reasonable pressure
might not open the port - in which case I think I am in for a lot of
trouble. In the meantime I plan to get a T fitting and put the LNAV
on the airspeed pitot pressure as being better than nothing and
getting me back up in the air. And allowing me to test the LNAV since
I have never had it working correctly since I bought the plane and I
hope this might explain why. I had thought the problem lay in the
LNAV itself but perhaps it lay in the TE probe.

One thing I noticed while I was working was that there were a whole
lot of ants (about 30 at one time) crawling in a line up the front
of the vertical stabilizer to the top of the elevator (just above the TE
hole) where they milled around acting like they were looking for
something. They did this for about an hour, then disappeared for an
hour, then re-appeared for another hour. I couldn't see ants elsewhere
on the plane, which made me wonder whether they might be associated with
the insect "junk" in the TE hole - I had swabbed out the hole with
alcohol by that time and since ants rely on leaving chemical messenges
those would have been "erased" inside the hole itself. Likely there is
another explanation (possibly the ants are just like glider plots and
like to climb and stay high) but it did make me wonder if anyone else
had ever experienced problems caused by ants entering their glider.