Since I'm still letting the rudder trailing edge cure, I did some work on the right elevator today. Got the replacement counterweight and ribs from Van's and drilled them – they came out fine the second time. Then there was a certain amount of match-drilling elevator ribs and spar together, which was also uneventful.
The least straightforward job of the day was trimming the counterweight. They send you two identical lead counterweights, and you have to remove a big chunk from the one that goes into the right elevator, since it is lighter than its cousin on the left side (left elevator has a trim tab and associated hardware). Here is the "before" shot, with area to be trimmed marked off:
30 sweaty minutes later, here's the finished product. I first bored through it with a 1/4" drill to provide a nice radiused corner, then I attacked it with hacksaw and file until it reached this state. I was pretty wiped out by the end. Although it's soft, lead is a pain to cut or drill because it wants to grab drill bits and load up saw teeth.
Then I took everything apart, deburred, dimpled, and primed. That's a couple hours of tedious work that I didn't bother to snap photos of.