Busy week this week and not much time for the project. I did have a spare hour so I deburred the right elevator skin.

Days like today are the day I love. Finally got to do some riveting. By the end of it all, I had the internal parts to both the left and right elevators riveted together. The first step was to rivet the two end ribs together. I accomplished this by using a longeron yoke in the…

Sanded and cleaned internal structure for priming. Then primed them. Right side pictured below:   

Today, I had one of those milestones you don’t want to have, but apparently they affect a lot of builders at some point and that is a the dreaded figure 8 dimple. Luckily, mine happened on a cheap part that is easy to replace…the trim tab elevator spar. I spent today dimpling all the internal…

Deburred all the internal parts to the elevator. No photos.

Today was a little frustrating. I decided to try and tackle mounting the electric trim servo brackets to the trim access panel. According to the plans, the inboard edge of the left bracket should line up with 1 3/8″ from the out board edge of the access panel. I found out the hard way that…

Not much today, but every little bit is that much closer. Match drilled the left elevator and the disassembled both elevators to get ready for deburring, dimpling, countersinking and priming.

Good lawd! I really gotta stop with these long breaks from building. I really caught the big to get back to work on it though. Hopefully, I’ll have the empennage wrapped up (other that fiberglass tip work which I’ll do later on) by July. Tonight, I had an hour to kill, so I got the…

Match drilled the counterweights and counterweight skin to the counterweight rib assembly. They turned out alright, but if I did it over, I would start the holes in the counterweights (I.e., drill about 1/8″ in) and then finish them on the drill press. It’s very important to drill these straight as possible. I have one…

After a nice long hiatus due to some music commitments and the holidays, I am finally back at it. Today, I match drilled the spar reinforcement plates to the spar, deburred and fluted the countersink ribs and outboard end ribs and final drilled them to the spar. I decided to work on both the left…