Started assembling the elevator today.Below: the first joint of the bigger 1" tube and the curved 3/4" tube.Right: the stabilizer, the fixed part of the elevator.

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Below: in the center of the stabilizer two 7/8" sleeves. One inside the 1" tube, and one over the two halves made of curved 3/4". This reinforcing is there so bolting onto the fuselage is more rigid.

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And started coping the tubes that go in the elevator. I am using a drill press with a vice bolted onto it. Seems to go OK !!

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