06-09-2011: 2 hrs
Almost forgot to add some RTV to the left elevator stiffeners. Un-clecoed the bottom surface and add a dab of RTV between the stiffeners at the trailing edge
RTV between stiffeners at the left elevator tip side
Left elevator is riveted together, except on the top flange of the trim spar (Bottom surface in the picture where you can see clecoes are still on)
The last two rivets of the tip rib are riveted using chisel and rivet gun. Not perfect, but should be OK. It is pretty hard to use solid rivets here. You can see some primer is scratched off, I will touch up this area later
MK319BS pop rivets are used for the last 4 holes of the trim spar. I have to drill the hole to 1/8" to use the pop rivets
The rivet locations are marked to close the tab bend.
Viewed from bottom, the tab is not perfectly closed after using two MSP-42 rivets
To prevent any damage due to vibration caused by the big-than-normal gap between tab bend, I decide to add another pop rivet
Shop heads of rivets on bottom flange of trim spar
Shop heads of rivets between trim spar and root rib
Flush heads of rivets between trim spar and root rib
