April 9th and 10th Update

Saturday, we spent the majority of the day inventorying all of the parts from the fuselage kit - it is a bit overwhelming to pull pounds of rivets out of the packaging and imagine that we will use every single one of them before the end.  We didn't have all parts inventoried and put up on the shelves unti 3:00 PM.

Mark took a half hour break and then he was back out to the shop to work on the rudder.  Here he is hand deburring the rivet holes on the thin-walled rudder skin.

Mark went flying early Sunday morning but then was back in the shop by 10:30 AM.  Here, he is dimpling the rudder brace with a rivet squeezer.

Below is a picture of him machine counter sinking the trailing edge bracket for the rudder. 

He talked me into helping the final hour on Sunday night to get everything finished up for the next stage of work.  Mark finished priming all the parts at 7:30 PM Sunday.  I have a feeling he will be working in the shop every night after work until the rudder is complete.  Below, all the parts primed and ready to rivet together!