I was really gunnin' to get things closed up. It feels great
to pass the inspection, but I know it will feel much better to finally close up
these pieces and complete them.
I started in on placing the rear spar in the Vertical
Stabilizer and riveting it into place. It's a bit tricky to set some of those
rivets as I have shop heads exposed on the backside of the spar stiffener (I
was using the recommended method of keeping the shop head on the thinnest
material as per the Van's Airforce forums - Seems that it's not always the most
ideal to do this, but extremely difficult to determine when it's wise and when
it's not. I then set the three pop rivets. All done!
I then went to work on getting the rear spar in the
horizontal stabilizer. Everything went really well. Slow and steady wins the
race, and I'm extremely pleased with how nice the rivets are set. I just need
to drill out one AN470AD4-4 rivet that attaches the end rib, as well as I need
to set the rivets to the front spar...Just a couple of odd rivets to set but
I'll hold off until i'm feeling super confident on those.
Just about done the horizontal stabilizer.
