I’m still waiting on tools or replacement parts to continue on the horizontal stabilizer or the rudder, so I did the only thing I could think of, which was to get the dulled soldering iron out to devinyl the rudder skin.

It’s peaceful work, that’s more like art than science, it looks cool, and it really signals progress in my mind.

Apparently, I was way more generous with the pictures tonight. I hope your dialup connection can handle it. Note for those in the future: it’s 2025. 90% of folks on the internet today don’t know what “dialup” means.

First, let’s get the stiffeners clecoed and matchddrilled to the skin.

Next, a bunch of matchdrilling, moving clecos, and matchdrilling the hole you clecoed. After all the stiffener holes were matchdrilled, I warmed up the iron…

Fast forward another 30 minutes, and I had all the outlines melted so I pulled off all the blue vinyl from the mating surfaces.

1.0 hours. Time for bed!