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First, I put the horizontal stabilisers in place - they fit into bushings. The first job is to set the stabilisers at an angle of 2 degrees nose down to the horizontal (this is only if you are fitting a Jabiru engine - see manual for further details). The clinometer made this a piece of cake. I set the whole fuselage up to be level in every plane, then set the stabilisers to 2 degrees, drilled and then bolted. This picture shows the one bolt which sets the angle of the stabilisers, and also the bolts in the next step...
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...which is bolting the two stabilisers in place - check the elevator can move freely (in other words, the stabilisers are lined up with one other). I drilled and bolted through the stabiliser and bushing on each side, front and back (four bolts in all). This picture shows how I clamped the whole set-up in place, so that nothing moved before I drilled. Measurements are taken to make sure that the tail fin is at right angles to both the horizontal stabilisers - hence bits of tape and various markings.
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This actually happened over 2 days (work got in the way again!), so maybe the hours count was a bit pessimistic - I didn't keep track very accurately. Next page