Sanded all elevator parts this morning.  Masked off the trailing edge foam rib locations with blue painters tape on the elevators and trim tabs.  Hung the left elevator skins on paracord strung across my side yard just outside of the garage.  Used left over 16 gauge copper wire to thread through the rivet holes to hook onto the paracord.  Perfect for non windy days.  Grabbed two 55 gallon barrels and laid some left over rabbit cage wire with a 1" by 1" mesh on top of them.  This was perfect for the smaller parts.  Used 80cc (combined equal parts) of AKZO to spray the parts.  20 min later, the parts that needed flipping got flipped and sprayed.  20 min later, the parts were bone dry and moved inside for assembly.

Next, I back riveted the rib halves to the skin and noticed a few didn't get a nice coat of prime.  Those remained off to get re primed. Riveted the right rear spar to the rib halves using the squeezer.  I riveted the rib halves to the left top skin backwards.  While drilling out those rivets, the 2 week old Sioux drill took a dump.  Bummer.  That threw me off my game.  I was kind of stuck and couldn't go forward at this point.  I setup for re prime on a few parts and then the sky opened up for the rest of the day.  Went ahead and riveted the right bottom skin to the rear spar.  Some of those rivets required to be drilled out.  Only a few so the Sioux drill worked for those but very very very slowly.   

Can't go further until the last few parts get re primed and get a new drill.  Sent an email to Cleveland Tool to see if they would warranty it and what the process was.  For the most part a productive day that had a few bumps.  The bumps are the learning pains of a newbie builder.  I have to slow down and read the plans multiple time, and double triple check the parts are laid out correctly before doing anything permanent to the airplane.  Sent an email to Vans Aircraft to see if it would be acceptable to up size the drilled out rivets to -4 instead of filling them all up with oops rivets on the rib/skin error.  That is it for today.   Another day of building is in the near future.  Stay tuned...