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Final drilling the HS skins

Hours: 5.5 Manual Ref: Page 8-9, steps 1 through 8 Partner: N/A

This was a lot of cleco pulling and moving, as well as drilling! There truly are a lot of holes in the horizontal stabilizer. This is also the first time I’m using the right-angle drill that I picked up from Harbor Freight. It works pretty well, but I probably should have practiced a little more on scrap pieces than I did. Thankfully, I didn’t scratch the stringer web (HS-1016) too much. After doing a little reading of other builder’s logs, I think I want to spend a little more time deburring all these parts. Just to be safe. I don’t want to end up with any cracks because I was going too fast and didn’t properly debur something during the build process ;-)