Stjohn's RV-7

3 hours.
The left elevator didn’t come out as well as I’d liked. I had some struggling to do with the roll, and once you roll those edges, it’s hard to re-roll them due to interference from one edge or the other. It came out OK, but not perfect. The right elevator came out fine. Now the only things left to do on the empennage are install the remaining AN509 bolt on one of the counterweights (one of them made it on to the floor at some point, got vacuumed up and accidentally discarded) and rebuild the servo cover plate and z-brackets. I’m rebuilding the servo cover plate because using Van’s measurements for their location offsets the servo arm about 1/8″ too far inboard. Since my trim tab horn is offset about 1/8″ outboard, the combined misalignment is more than I want to have. If I ever rebuilld the trim tab, I’ll make sure to line it up on the cutout for the control rod in the elevator skin. As it is, I might have to enlarge that cutout slightly but i’m going to see if I can get away without doing it for the time being. Here’s a shot of me actually building this airplane: