Removing Protective Film with wood burning tool (tip is polished first).
Technique used to pull open Elevator skins for riveting. 1x2
strip screwed to workbench allows clamping the vertical boards at various
angles, depending on the clamp position.
Drilling trailing edge of Right Elevator. Aluminum channel is
attached to hollow-core door edge, my 5-foot bucking bar is used as a weight
to align spar, and trailing edge is drilled right through into the channel,
and clecoed down. Using an old door will help ensure a planar surface.
Do not depend on your work table top being true.
Trim tab near completion. Clamps are tightened gently.
This special flush rivet set is actually a back-rivet set with the
collar removed, and the bar wrapped in duct tape. I used it to attach
the trim tab horns (which I should have attached before I riveted the spar).
Primering where the Trim Tab horns are attached.
Glueing trailing edges with T88 epoxy. Riveted with -3.5 rivets, rather than the -3's called out.
Elevators complete, attached to HS and horizontal tail is temporary moved out of the basement shop.