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Date:  11-25-2007
Number of Hours:  5.00
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Brief Description:  Finishing right elevator

Today I finished preparing the right elevator skeleton for priming. Because we can not spray paint in the hangers I took everything to my garage to prime. While it was drying I had lunch and visited with my wife. After a couple of hours I took everything back to the hanger for assembly. I started hand squeezing all of the skeleton assembly rivets, but they are all 4s. I can squeeze a 4-5, but it takes a lot out of me. So, why break my back when I have air pressure. Everything went together fairly quickly. I had one rivet to drill out due to a malformed machine head. The rivet gun slipped so it beat the head up. The elevator horn took more time to rivet than it should have considering it was only 12 rivets. It just did not want to line up where it needed to go. After a little fussing and head scratching I got it fixed. Ran out of time as I was clecoing the skin onto the skeleton. All the skin rivets are reachable with a hand set, so I plan on hand squeezing those when I get back to the hanger.
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Bottom of right ele. inboard side

Bottom of right ele. inboard side

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Forward edge bottom up

Forward edge bottom up

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Forward edge top side up.

Forward edge top side up.

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