April 04, 2005

1 Hour - Started riveting left elevator

Today I started riveting the left elevator skin on the skeleton. One other little mistake I forgot to mention yesterday was that I had misdrilled the counterweight. I guess I was being dumb and had the weight in backwards (weight sticking out on the inboard side). Luckily the holes were far enough off that I had no problem drilling new holes in it correctly, we'll just have to see if the weight is too light now when I get it all finished up. No big deal there, though, adding some lead shot in there shouldn't be too tough and I know others have had to do the same in the past. Basically I just got the counterweight skin and outboard rib riveted today, as well as putting the screws in the new counterweight holes.