- About half the time was spent adding a small modification to the tail section. I read online where a number of RV-7 tail draggers have too much flexing going on under the aft inspection panel. The solution seems to be to add a small stiffener to each side.
- It took several tries to get the stiffener angle the way I wanted it but after that it was just a matter of drilling out a rivet under each side of the inspection opening and using my rivet fan to lay out the rivet pattern. I got the right side done today, the left side should go faster.
- I drilled all the holes in the aft fuselage and horizontal stabilizer for routing rudder nav / strobe light wiring and elevator trim servo wiring.
- I also spent a fair amount of time filing and cleaning up the elevator down stop.
Stiffener mod rivet holes and stiffener angle:
Rivet fan in action (very handy):
The hole left of the green line is for the tail nav / strobe snap bushing:
Another snap bushing hole for the tail nav / strobe wiring:
