Did some dimpling of the elevator parts but only spent an hour or so on them after spending some time with the family.

Put together my "paint booth" aka greenhouse today in prep for painting when I can get a warm enough day to prep and prime the elevator. (no video)

Continued with the elevator this weekend. FInally have it all apart. Hopefully all parts are now cleaned up and ready for dimpling. Was lost with the E-910 brackets so spent some time looking through the plans. Couldn't really see where it actually mentioned to check them so, I cleaned them up anyway in preparation.

I'm a little concerned one edge is a little close to a hole on the solo E-1008A rib part. Will probably make a doubling plate or try to make a whole new rib part. Not sure why one of the bends is there so may need to seek an answer from Vans on that.

​Video includes work over the two days of the weekend. 

Continued work on the elevator today. Pulled the left elevator apart and cleaned up the edges holes of the two skins.

The blue plastic is a real chanllenge to remove. Pretty cold here today so I don't think that helped too much.

Looking at priming soon but temperatures aren't too good. Going to need to heat garage before I can prime the inside parts.

Continued to work on the elevator following the plans. Nothing to exciting to talk about. Just ensured all went together, pulled apart right elevator and cleaned up all edges and holes ready for cleaning and priming.

Been trying to source Alodine and Alumiprep here in New Zealand but no luck. Too expensive to import it here. After looking for alternatives, came across preKote. The NZ importer is only 2 hours south of me. They finally returned my call and personally delivered 5 litres the next day. HAven't used it yet, but next task will be this.

​Few different days of short work in the video.
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Started to do some more work last weekend but didn't get very far due to the family receiving some bad news. Put paid to work for the weekend. The work I did do is included in today's video.

Got a response from Van's support about the bends and relief holes I did last week. They suggested I use a file rather than a drill and make the relief holes a little larger. Did that today. 

Continued with the plans and cleacoed the elevator together. Fitted the hinge as well.
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