Another great night in the shop tonight. First thing’s first, let’s get the inboard rib riveted to the spar.

Then, 4 more rivets, this time AN470AD4-4s to connect the tip and counterbalance ribs to the spar.

Next, we’ll finish the skeleton by attaching the elevator horn to the spar and inboard ribs. 12 more rivets here. I think we’re up to 20 so far.

Then, almost a full 30 minutes of pulling out the interior blue vinyl. Is it time consuming, yes. Does it leave a beautiful untouched surface on the interior? Also yes.

Now, let’s start riveting on the skin. The manual has you start with these two flush rivets on the top and bottom of the skins to avoid using a blind rivet.

An hour or so passed at this moment in the picture-taking. Bu after doing a bunch of skin to spar riveting, I made it here, to these hard-to-reach rivets.

Wait, these might be out of order. Here’s an in-progress shot of the bottom of the left elevator as I’m working on riveting the skin to the spar.

This is now the top side of the left rudder with most of the skin-to-spar rivets complete.

Again, a few minutes pass by without a picture, then…

Yes, there are a few rivets missing at the tab hinge area, but I was having trouble there, time to walk away.

170 plus some rivets over 3.0 hours in the garage. There are still some things to do to finish the left elevator, but it’s definitely getting close.