A lot of start-stop. Right elevator skin mated to skeleton. Skeleton, ribs, plates—all riveted. Mixed up tank seal & smeared on interior stiffener ends. Skin riveted to skeleton. Counterweight mounted. Weldment riveted on. Dimpling after priming worked great. Need more tank seal for left-hand elevator (ordered). Only things left: rolling edges, adding rod-end bearings, fiberglass […]

Parts all scrubbed. Some parts took additional deburring. Dremel + Scotch Brite was the best way to go about that. Primer (200ml total) was used. With clean gun the priming went much better.

Discovered 8-ish rivets in trim plate access reinforcement that weren’t dimpled or riveted. These were (embarrassingly) dimpled and riveted in place rather than drilling out the surrounding rivets (again!) and dimpling separate. I deburred. On these notes, I quit. Still no word from Van’s on my wings. 🙁