Brief Description: Riveting Left Horizontal Stabilizer
I had my first progress check from Kent Stitt, he built and is flying an RV-7A. Wanted confirmation that the prep and rivet work I had done up to this point was good. Kent took a good look at my work and said I was doing OK, gave me a couple of tips and said "Build on!" Jason helped on the next phase. We made some practice pieces and he learned to buck rivets, then we cleco'd the tip rib and spar assembly into the skin and riveted the bottom side of the nose rib. Jason did a great job getting the bucking bar in the stab and we used solid rivets for the whole thing. Used our first blind rivets to rivet the main rib to the spar and nose rib. Kind of hard to squeeze the puller inside the stab, but the rivets came out good. Also riveted the tip rib to the spar, Jason bucked these rivets as well. Started putting in the flush rivets on the skin. Jason did a good job bucking and checking shop heads.
