The Stabilator is done!

When I was working on the Anti Servo, one of the steps was to break apart the hinges and use the template provided to drill out the holes for mounting.  Well that is what I did…on all four parts.  The problem is that I should have only done this on two parts.  The other two parts of the hinge used a different side of the template and had a different pattern.  So today I started out by drilling my new hinge per the instructions.

Once the drilling was done, I put aside the hinge and went on to put the skins on the stabilator frame.

 

You can see that I taped of f the holes that should not be riveted yet.  If you look close you will see that I missed a few holes and will be drilling out 8 rivets later in the day.

Here it is all riveted on both the left and right halfs

 

 

Now to put the drilled out hinge on

 

If you look close at the clecos and go back to the tape marks you will see where I had to drill out the rivets.  The drilling was easy.  The hard part was shaking the inside half of the rivet out of the stablilator so that I did not sound like a spray paint can when i moved it around.

And here is the finished part