Section 9 - Elevators (deburring, match-drilling, and a bunch of other tasks)

A lot of small, but (seemingly) important tasks happened since the last update, including bending close-out tabs on left skins, cutting right rear spar, drilling the 5/8" and 3/8" holes in left spar, clecoing (and then unclecoing) ribs and skins, match-drilling #30 and #40 holes as requires, and lots and lots of deburring of edges and all holes.  Oy.  Did I mention deburring?  Finally, I dimpled the ribs, spars, trim motor access doubler, shear clip, etc., fashioned the trim tab horns and pushrod, countersunk the trailing edges and rear spars, and riveted nutplates. All this and more took about 21 hrs. I didn't take too many pictures of all these steps, but here are a few:

A couple holes needed this little bad boy (90deg angle drill attachment from Cleaveland Aircraft Tools):

Countersinking the trailing edges ... fun?  You bet. Aluminum shavings flying everywhere!  Note the RV-14-specific jig for the trailing edges, again from Cleaveland Aircraft Tool - essential, in my opinion:

Dimpled and riveted 5 of 7 nutplates to the trim motor access doubler:

Many elevator parts that have been deburred and dimpled: 

Another look at those parts, from the other side of the bench:

Trim tab pushrod - a tiny part that took quite a while to fashion correctly (will be primed, btw, since I fondled it WAY too much for the alodized surface to properly protect it in the future).  FYI, I used AD426-3-4 rivets vs.  -3.5 rivets to attach all three pieces of the pushrod, since the -3.5 rivets were not long enough to fully double-flush:

Since I forgot to take a lot of pictures of the parts before I unclecoed them, here'd one of the left elevator skins that have been dimpled:

... and, one of two right skins, dimpled:

Wait ... how did this picture get in here?   Anyone like  American wild ales?  This one, from Red Cypress Brewery in Winter Springs, FL, is Brett-tastic!