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After the proseal has cured, it's time to rivet the trailing edges. scary. first, you have to clean the holes of the trailing edges out with a drill bit spun in your fingers. for riveting, i just back riveted everything. they say to flip it over and hit it with a flush rivet set, which i started to do, but i decided it wasn't doing anything for me. so i just clecoed every other hole through the trailing edge into my homemade bucking bar, and set every other rivet in random order. when i was done with that, i'd un-cleco the trailing edge, and do the rest, jumping around like the directions say.


Then you pretty much finish up the last of the skin rivets. there's some tight ones to get at, but if you have a squeezer with a thin nose no hole yoke, you can just get em.


ok - now here's the REALLY CRAPPY PART. i hate this. rolling the leading edges of the elevators. i don't know why, but i just don't like doing it. oh well - we just plowed ahead, and got some great results. bethany is the one with all the smarts for this part. she really had the knack.

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