First up, a nice shot of how long the horizontal stabilizer rear spar is. I remember being suprised with the RV-7. It’s just as big on the RV-8.

Here, everything is clecoed together, ready for riveting.

I squeezed the first three rivets on the HS reinforcement bars, and was pleasantly surprised. Clamping to the table helped keep everything aligned.

Then, I set the phone down for a few minutes and got into the groove. Most of these are AN470AD4-6 rivets, with -5s at the outboard hinge brackets and -7s for the brackets that sit on top of the bars.

1.0 hours tonight, squeezed 116 AN470AD4- rivets. I was pleasantly surprised with my economy hand squeezer, but I still want the Main Squeeze one from cleveland. I wish they weren’t backordered.