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Started back riveting the stiffeners

It was easy to pull the elevator skin down in position to back rivet the stiffeners on the plate. I know now from working on the right elevator that I could "push the envelope" on how far you can open these elevator skins. They are pretty flexible and can be openened quite a bit (within reason). The weird part is that if I positioned the back rivet gun perfectly vertical, the rivet went in crooked. I had to lean the gun a little towards the upward stiffener flange in order to get a perfect back rivet.

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