Well, it was quite the productive hour in the garage tonight. After a few days of drilling, disassembly, deburring, dimpling, countersinking, scuffing, cleaning, priming, etc., it was finally time to start putting together the right elevator for good.

First up, let’s get the tip rib and counterbalance rib riveted together.

Next some reinforcement plates with the rod end nutplates on the out part of the right elevator spar.

Then more for the inboard part of the right elevator spar.

Of course, here’s some manufactured heads for your viewing pleasure.

and some more…

Next up, let’s get the root rib and the elevator horn attached.

Here’s a shot of the exterior of the elevator horn.

Then, we attach the tip rib assembly to the spar itself with 4 rivets.

Manufactured heads for you…

Next, we rivet the two hard-to-reach rivets on the counterbalance skin.

Finally, it’s time to cleco on the skin. You can tell from this picture that my trailing edge bend is not perfect. My bench-long bending brake did not work as expected, so I’m going to have to use the trailing edge squeeze tool that van’s describes in the manual to remedy this.

1.0 hours, 58 rivets. Tomorrow will be skin riveting!