Today I deburred the holes and edges, and dimpled the holes, for both elevator skins. Tedious. My edge deburring method is to first use a vixen file to knock off the shear marks, then 220 and 400 grit sandpaper until the edges are smooth and all visible tooling marks are gone. It takes a while.
Then I shot some primer along the rivet lines. I think the combination of striped empennage skins along with striped ugly futon is rather fetching, don't you?
Then I primed all the elevator stiffeners and the E-615 trim reinforcement bracket. Mary came out and helped me clean parts, and to re-mark them after the acetone washes off the identifiying marks during the cleaning process.
