Stjohn's RV-7

This is evidence of the fact that I can’t count holes, and should have been looking for a pattern. the Left HS hinge brackets not only have the manufactured heads on the wrong side, they’re in the wrong place as well.. The outboard bracket is ten, count ’em TEN holes from the end of the reinforcing bar. This bracket is at nine. Grr. Double Grr. So today I decided to drill out and redo the rivets, because something tells me I don’t want this particular sandwich to lose its tomato in flight. So drill them out I did, but this is where the double-grr comes in. I put them back on exactly as they came off, but not before I realized the position was wrong. So I drilled them out again. Rivets don’t like to come out of that angle steel nearly as easily as they pop out of aluminum, so I had to drill them out, and in doing so, enlarged the holes past the point of being able to safely take a rivet. Fmmkgrmmbllefffmk. Just ordered my first oops parts from Van’s. I’ll take a couple of HS412-PP’s to go, thanks.