I had hoped not to do this, but I removed the horizontal stabilizer to make glassing the tips easier.
I had previously put a layer of glass over this joint way back when I first built the horizontal stabilizer, but I didn’t know that I needed to rough both surfaces up then, so I had to remove the old glass, rough up the surfaces with 80 grit sandpaper and re-glass them.
I also glassed over the leading edges of the elevator counterweight horns. You can also see here how I clamped my horizontal stabilizer to the bench. I screwed a small piece of plywood to the bench and then clamped the forward spar to it. I can hang the elevators from the horizontal stabilizer this way and fair the tips together so that they’re perfectly aligned.
