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Monday, July 2, 2012

Finished horizontal stabilizer!: 7.5 hours

Used the squeezer for all but 4 rivets. Only had to replace one rivet on this entire section. The whole process went quickly. It's too bad you can't use the squeezer everywhere.

After everything was riveted together I went over the whole stabilizer and smoothed out a few nicks from the riveting process. I also lightly scuffed the whole surface with a fine scotchbrite pad.

The stabilizer looks great and is ready to be stored until its needed later in the build.

First major sub assembly complete!