9/10/2007
Tonight brought back some memories! I hadn't seen the horizontal stabilizer and elevators for almost two years, so when I brought them down from the airplane storage room, I had to take a close look to see what I had done back then. Not too shabby actually!
I slid the elevators in place next, and installed an AN3-7 bolt in each bracket/rod end bearing to hold them in place.
Then I clamped them neutral at the tips.
The elevator arms are individually welded, so they aren't expected to be the same, but mine are actually pretty darn close! I couldn't tell until I looked at this picture that it looks like the one on the left is farther aft.
Just barely, but I think I'll use the left side to drill the first hole. I may not get to this for a couple days, but that's okay...I need to do some reading to figure the best way to do this. I think I'm going to borrow a straight flute drill bit from Rob to make it easier.
That's all for tonight!
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