Today was a pretty fun day and already a milestone. Got to set my first rivet of the project. The center elevator hinge bracket required some assembly. I broke out the pneumatic squeezer to accomplish this task. First, I had to prime the steel bearing (I used Dupli-Color self etching primer) Then, I clecoed the…

Continued work on the rear spar. Not much time for the project today as I have an orchestra rehearsal tonight. I match drilled the holes in the reinforcement bars to the holes in the web of the spar. The holes are factory drilled slightly undersize so when resized they will be flush and the rivets…

Today I got started. The first step is to prepare the rear spar of the horizontal stabilizer for assembly. These are the rear spar reinforcement bars. The ends need to be rounded and the sharp edges need to be slightly radiused (rounded and smoothed). Above is before and after. By the time I got to…