Deburred and primed elevator ribs

Deburred and primed left elevator ribs and left elevator stiffeners. Also had to cut out from the aft spar to make space for the control horn. Definitely should have done that before everything was riveted together, but it worked out OK. Had to prime the HS after cutting, so I primed the whole aft end. Stupid thing with two component primer, there is a minimum amount when mixing, so there will allways be too much, and if it is too litle, I have to mix another batch, so it will be too much no matter what. Will do the same with the VS, it looks so much better when all the pen marking are (almost) gone.

Put some blue anti fouling on the boat as well on one side. Soon it will be on the water.

Details on elevator

Couldn't figure out how to position the bend on the lower flange on E-404 to mate with the spar. Instead I made an angle that I will rivet on to the spar and E-404. Marked rivets and fluted the elevator ribs.

HS ribs primed

Deburred and primed the ribs for the HS. Fixed the sligthly conical shaped HS-406 by strightening out the ribs. The HS-406 ribs had an oval shape when looking from top to bottom making them point outward when riveted on to the spar. Just by making them straight made them parallel by approximately 1 mm.

Now I have to decide if the HS-407 spars are to be riveted on now or later - solid flush rivets or pulled rivets on the skin on the HS-404, hmmm ....

Riveting hinge brackets on HS

Hinge brackets are riveted in place. Laid out marks for rivets on the ribs for fluting.

Deburred ribs

Deburred the ribs on the HS this evening.