Smitty's RV-9A from Van's Aircraft

RV-9A: Project Entry

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Started work on riveting the stiffeners to the right elevator skin
After scratching my head for several minutes and not being able to find anyone to help hold the elevator skin for the stiffener riveting, I came up with a solution. I attached an old piece of plywood to the back of the work bench and started adding scrap pieces of wood the top/front of it, to bring the top edge as forward as possible. Then I duct-taped the bottom of the elevator to the top of the back thingy (I don't know what to call it). Then all I had to do was pull the skin down onto the back rivet board and rivet away. It worked great.

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