Replacement HS parts arrive, drilling and riveting hinge bearing

With all these packages arriving so often, It's like Christmas every week!

The replacement HS-702 spars arrived, so it was time to restart work on the horizontal stabilizer. One of the first things I did was prime the VA-146 hinge bearing with a can of self-etching primer from Lowe's (the AKZO was still on backorder) and rivet it to its VA-411 hinge brackets. This primer tends to be watery and runny and didn't leave a good finish compared to pictures I've seen of AKZO-primed parts, so I probably won't be using the spray can stuff very much after this.

The very first rivet set on my airplane. Historic!

Five more rivets later and I have the first complete, albeit small, part of my airplane!