Started work on the Vertical Stabilizer ribs

Here are the plans. Doesn't look too complicated.

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Pealing off the Blue Stuff. Not fun, but must be done...

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Trim off the front of the ribs. This is most likely to prevent outward dents in the vertical stabilizer skin when attached. I also deburred and sanded all the edges on each rib.

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Crimped the outer flanges. This crimp forces the rib to straighten so it lays flat on the work bench.

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Pop-riveted the front spar and ribs together. It's starting to look like something!

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Smoothed the edges on the vertical stabilizer skins. Sometimes on the scotch-brite wheel, but mostly with 320 grit sandpaper.

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Riveted the nutplates to the forward spar. These nutplates have screws that hold on the forward skin.

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Clecoed everything together. Time for pop-rivets!

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Pop-riveted everything together. So easy. Me likey!

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Put on the Front Skin. This is looking really good!

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Finished! Now for the Rudder!

Started work on the Vertical Stabilizer Rear Spar

Made the wedge tools. This little wedge allows me to install pop-rivets at an angle when there's not enough room to put one in.

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Put the Vertical Stabilizer Hinge Assemblies Together. I used my handy pneumatic rivet squeezer to rivet this together. The pneumatic rivet squeezer make riveting much easier than the conventional hand squeezer.

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Here are the upper and lower hinge assemblies. These assemblies will allow the attachment of the aircraft rudder.

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Put in the upper spar cap onto the rear spar. Now, on to the lower spar cap.

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Put the lower spar cap in place on the rear spar. Time for some drillin'!

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Final drilled everything. I final drilled the upper and lower spar cap using the rear spar as a guide.

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Riveted the spar cap to the rear sparRiveted the spar cap to the rear spar. Here's where the wedges come in handy, since I can't put in the pop rivets without them.