Rudder revisited

The last few days I've been working on the rudder components.  I was waiting to rivet the stiffeners until I had more experience riveting the elevator stiffeners, since the skins on the elevator are slightly thicker (.020").  This turned out to be a non issue.  I back riveted some scrap stiffener aluminum to some .016" sheet for practice, and to get the rivet pressure dialed in.  After that, I riveted all of the stiffeners to the left and right rudder skins.  Last weekend I cleaned, primed and riveted all of the skeleton components, so the rudder is now ready for final assembly.  I haven't decided exactly how I'm going to address the trailing edge wedge, but I'll figure that out over the next couple of days.

Parts deburred and ready for priming

Skeleton parts primed...

... and ready for riveting

Installing reinforcement plates on front spar (used hand squeezer and a longeron yoke for this)

Skeleton completely riveted and installed in left and right skin

Back riveting stiffeners to left and right skins

All stiffeners riveted in place - only leading and trailing edge work remains