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Sanded, primed and riveted E-906 end rib to the E-902 spar

This was a little weird, pulling these parts fresh out of the box and being instructed to rivet them together. The rib and the spar would still need to be clecoed and final drilled to the elevator skin. There wasn't any mention of sanding edges or priming these parts at the attachment point, so I did it anyway. Also the instructions said that it would OK to bend the E-906 rib to allow riveting. I used my Avery rivet squeezer with the no-hole yoke and didn't have any problem putting in the rivets. No rib-bending was required.

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