Second post of the day! Dad and I decided to drill the forward hinge for the trim tab to the elevator, and we got it knocked out of the way. We used a straight edge to align the trailing edges of the elevator and the trim tab and it turned out quite right. Once it was clecoed together with the hinge in place, the straight edge was only about 1/32" off when compared, so we're happy!
Before we we're able to drill the trim tab hinge we realized that the trim tab spar had to be bent a bit in order for the skin of the tab to be flat on both sides. In other words, without bending the spar, the skin was curved on the top and bottom sides. Not acceptable. So we clamped the tab skin and spar to our work bench firmly, got our deadblow mallet and a piece of 1x3 and went at it. Sounds a bit medieval, but the finished product was nice and straight. Thank you Donovan, for carrying us through this last task of the night.
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