Rudder Riveting and Setting up a Jig

I spent most of this weekend getting stuff put together on the rudder to make sure things lined up, etc. I noticed that the trailing edge of the rudder wasn’t super flat so I decided to follow the route that quite a few others have done which is to setup an angle iron jig. I got that done this weekend and now I have just a few small places where I think the counter sinking isn’t 100% but I’ll get that cleaned up here soon and get this thing closed up. I wasn’t 100% happy with the rivets on the stiffners…. The rivets kept wanting to fold over doing the back-riveting. I tried my absolute darndest to keep that rivet gun 100% vertical, but that’s impossible with out a level on the backside of it. I would just give a few taps with the rivet gun and then check. Do a few more and check again. But usually once it started folding over it was a do-over. Oh well…

I also had to spend a bit of time redoing the lights in the garage. The original ones were already burned out. I couldn’t believe it. I got a different brand this time which required me to remount these.