Riveted Right Elevator

I started by riveting the hinge reinforcement plates and platenuts to the elevator spars.  I'm still working on both elevators to save time.



Here is the trim servo supports, back-riveted to the trim cover plate.



And here is the servo, mounted to the supports.



I riveted the root ribs onto the spars.  This is the root rib for the left elevator.  You can see it has a blunt end where the trim spar attaches. 



The instructions are definitely not in the best order here.  They have you rivet E-703 (end rib) to E-704 (counterbalance rib) before riveting them both to the spar.  The problem with that is that these rivets can't be squeezed if you do that and must be shot/bucked (probably with a double offset set).  Instead, I squeezed these now while they're easy to reach.



And then squeezed the rivets holding E-703 to E-704.



The elevator horns can now be riveted on.



I added a dab of RTV to the back end of each stiffener pair to tie them together.  This helps prevent cracking here according to Van's.