So not much detail for this post. Somehow I didn’t have my camera in “timelapse” mode, so I had to edit down a few hours of 4k video down to something “reasonable”. Again I was more concerned with making progress than I was on getting good camera angles. I was doing a bit better with my elevator videos that I should publish shortly.
Essentially this was a bunch of “rinse and repeat” riveting the ribs and spars to the skin. Nothing major. There is a note in the plans that some of the holes in the center of the HS may be more accessible when they are out of the cradles. I absolutely found this to be the case for my build (not shown in the video).
During this stage is when I really wanted an EAA counselor or another builder to come over and talk me off the ledge. I was getting upset that my skins weren’t “perfect” and that I was putting some dings in the skins. One of my local builders came over to take a look and didn’t see anything that was of any real concern. Even the dent in my rudder didn’t make him flinch. The advice was that I should try to use my mushroom swivel set (similar to this one). I have one sitting in my toolbox but hadn’t used it yet. I’ll have to see how it works on the elevators.
Anyway, here is the final Horizontal Stabilizer video.