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I moved on to step 2 and 3: match drilling holes in the vertical stabilizer spar caps (the pieces I cut in step 1).  I used the drill press for these, because the plans indicated the importance of  getting the holes perpendicular.

Drilling the first holes, cleco’ing as I go: (There are side clecos holding the piece in that you can’t see from this angle)

A whole bunch of drilled holes with clecos:

Berck: 4 hours.

 

The first step was take the vertical stabilizer rear spar caps (VS-1014), and cut off a 16″ wedge of aluminum in order to make them into VS-1014-L and VS-1014-R.  I did this, deburred them, and also deburred the VS rear spar (VS-1003) as well.  It’s such a modest little first step.

Here is the right one done, with the left one untouched.

I never photographed the completed tables with the DRDT-2 mounted between them, so here’s that:

Both spar caps complete:

 

Berck: 2 hours.