Stjohn's RV-7

Yesterday when Dan was here, he pointed out the ham-fisted way the left HS inboard ribs were put together. He was right. It’s ugly. Two rivets are close to minimum edge distance, if not over the line, and now that I see that little section of the HS (Months later), it looks like a team of chimps went to work on it with socks full of ball bearings. But I so want to be done with the empennage. I sent photos to Van’s, and they said yeah, it’s ugly, but it’s ‘hard to imagine this will cause any problems structurally.’ So I’m going to move on, and cover it up with the empennage fairing when the time comes. If it continues to drive me nuts, like some aluminum telltale heart pinging away aft of the baggage compartment, I’ll fix it by replacing the left HS inboard ribs.