When it comes to these elevators, I think I spend more of my time flipping parts around in awkward holding contraptions than actually building. Following what I learned in doing the right elevator, I went ahead and riveted the counterbalance ribs to the spar before starting to rivet the spar to the skin. I don't know why the plans don't have things in this order. It's a whole lot easier to set 5 specific rivets in those ribs and spar before the skin is in place. After completing that, the skin got put into the torture device so I could open it up beyond 90 degrees and put the spar in place.
Just like the right elevator, getting the bucking bar in place to rivet the spar to skin rivets was pretty awkward. The only way I found to manage it was to have the bucking bar held up against the top of the spar web by two fingers, then pushed against the flange and rivet with my thumb. By the time I was done bucking, I had a serious cramp in my fingers, but it's done! It's hard to see those rivets at all, let alone get a good picture, but for the most part they all turned out pretty decent.
It's always fun to do something a little different, so I ended the night by dimpling the nutplates so they would mate with the dimpled trim tab mounting plate, then riveting them in place. This piece gets permanently mounted to the bottom of the elevator inside the skin, then the plate that the actual trim servo mounts to is held in place by screws that use the nutplates.
