Today we spent time doing the final assembly of the right elevator (for those who are watching closely we moved our building day to Sunday this week). We first attached the main spar to the top of the skin. The elevator skins are pre-bent so this was actually quite difficult as we needed to hold the skins apart to rivet the spar and skins together. We next back riveted the stiffners to the bottom skin before riveting the main spar to the bottom skin. We did this with a combination of solid rivets and pop rivets. We used our new pneumatic pop-rivet gun (a cheap investment but really cool) which made this step a breeze. Finally we riveted the ribs to the skins.
Before we left for the day we brought the left elevator down and got ourselves oriented for the work on Tuesday.
The new pneumatic pop/blind rivet gun. A Princess Auto special.
Scott setting up a jig to hold skin open while we rivet the skin to the skeleton.
The skin clamped into place.
Scott operating the new pop riveter.... It is unecessary but a nice to have.
Time to pull out the Left elevator.
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