I spent a few minutes inserting rod end bearings into the spar, then declared success. Only one more component to go!

Losing not a second (ok, maybe losing a lot of seconds) I clecoed the left elevator together – and promptly found a problem with the left elevator’s root rib. Almost looks like the rib’s forward flange was bent in the wrong place, because when it’s clecoed to the spar none of the other holes line up – and they’re way off – like more than one hole diameter off. The part just doesn’t look right. I fired off an email and some pictures to Van’s to get their opinion. With work on the left elevator itself stalled, I pulled out the vixen file and shaped the left counterweight to its final form.