Date:    6-30-2015
Number of Hours:    1.00
Brief Description:    riveting elevator skins
Started riveting the elevator skins.

The first task was to correct one of the nut-plates in the Right elevator re-inforcment plate. It seems that I mis-aligned the rivet holes, so that the nut-pate was not properly centered over the screw-hole. This would mean a mis-alligned and mal-fitting screw, which is not acceptable. So I drilled out the rivets, discardedthe (now dammaged) nut-plate and then installed a new nutplate using newly drilled rivet-holes The resut is very much better.

I am not too worried about possible structural issues relating to the extra rivet holes in the re-inforcing plate, because there is still plenty of metal between these holes and the nearest nieghboring edges and holes in the plate.