Stjohn's RV-7

5 hours.
drilled, deburred, dimpled, primed right elevator skeleton.. Deburred and dimpled the parts of the skin I could reach with the squeezer. Got lazy and blew off the rest til the skeleton’s done. Messed up the last two rivets, sticking E-704 to E-702. I have not yet mastered the double-offset rivet set. The rivets are mushed a little sideways.. They’ll do, but they look like ass, so I’m going to drill them out and redo them. I also managed to bash the hell out of the spar when the rivet gun went for a little ride on the second-to-last rivet. Lesson: Don’t do intense craftsmanship tasks when you’re tired. Next chance I get, i’ll drill out those rivets and see if there’s some clever way to winkle a squeezer in there. If there isn’t, I need to find a better bucking bar option, or find a helper. Once I get past that little snag I’ll close up the right elevator and move on to the left one. The end of the empennage is in sight. Only took a year. At this rate I’ll have the plane done right around the time the quantum-foam zero-point-energy drive shows up as a crate motor from Pep Boys.