Satisfied by our completion of the Van's toolbox that we were indeed equal to the task of building an airworthy airplane, we dove into the empennage kit assembly.
First challenge: finding the rear spar stiffeners. Some trickster at Van's had placed them under a layer of cardboard beneath the skins...and I'd forgotten they were there in the time since inventorying the box.
We proceeded to break the edges of the stiffeners with a vixen file, radius the ends & polish them on the scotch-brite wheel to a brushed finish.
Trying to save some $ I had ordered a Scotch-Brite wheel on Amazon...that turned out to be 6x1/4x1/2. Oops.
We clecoed the spar stiffeners to the rear spar, match-drilled and deburred the assembly.
I'll be ordering a 6x1x1/2 Scotch-Brite wheel from one of the usual suspects, as no local auto or hardware store carries them. Lesson learned!
Empennage: 5hrs
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