Left elevator stiffeners

Drilled on the stiffeners on the upper surface. Had a visit from the controller yesterday. Everything was OK, and the books signed.

elevator stiffeners

Did some more trimming of the stiffeners and marked the rivet holes.

Trimmed the stiffeners

Finished the stiffeners for the left elevator.

Cut out the elevator trim

Cut out the elevator skin and made the stiffeners. Have to trim and deburr the stiffeners.

Marked up the left elevator

Measured and marked up the left elevator including the trim tab.

Riveted right elevator skeleton, started on left

Riveted together the the tip ribs on the right elevator. Had some primer left in the gun, so I primed the pop rivets in the rudder skeleton as well. Started on the left elevator, simply studying the drawings and parts trying to figure out how this all fit together.

More priming

Did some more priming. Riveted on the brackets for the elevator hinges and the hinge nut.

Priming elevator parts

Primed some elevator parts. Ordered a bunch of vareous CherryMax rivets after looking at some videos at EAA "Hints for Homebuilders". Replaced the sole 4/32 solid rivet with a 5/32 rivet in the R-410. It simply looked way too strange with three different kind of rivets there.