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Tami and I finished riveting
the horizontal stabilizer. We got done riveting the skins
much quicker tonight. All skin rivets were measured
with the rivet gauge and he shop heads were all adequately formed.
No known mistakes.
After riveting the rear
spar to the horizontal stabilizer, the structure is very rigid and
appears to be perfectly straight. I don't know how the casual
builder (first time builder) could to this without having all the
pre-punching's that comes with the Van's kit and obtain such a high
quality of construction with the finished product. It would
take a real craftsman if you had to lay out all the rivets manually...
Love that modern technology.



All that is left for this
is to potentially notch the rear spar to make room for the elevator
horn travel and mount the HS-411PP hinge bracket. Ooh yeah,
the fiberglass tips... I am not going to worry about those
until later.
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