RV 12 Building Beginning January 21

Well, I'm doing little better; only two days since I entered our progress.
JANUARY 21, we picked up on page 10-06 and put on the bottom skin. I only pulled 3 bad rivets; it was easier with two people to hook the skins into the 'J' channel. We went on to page 10-07 and 10-08. I think I may be repeating myself because this is where we installed the static port. We went on to page 10-09 and didn't have any problems. We ran an extra string in case we have the ability to put in a strobe.Page 10-10 was ok; we filed a little off F-1210C, alittle too much as it turned out. We didn't have anything to rivet the outside skin to on the outside edge of the flange pictured in Figure 2. We had to break the edges of F1278, using a 2x4x8 on the floor and running a wood block on the edge of the skin. It worked pretty well, as we used this same method before and we attained a satisfactory seal.
JANUARY 22, page 11-02, we mounted the V-stab assembly and had a tought time putting on the bolts on the lower hinge assembly. We used masking tape to hold the washers in place while we threaded the bolts through their appropriate holes. We found that we had to use a file to plane down the surface of the rudder assembly, as it nearly comes in contact with the V-Stab assembly when swung to either side. It would DEFINITELY contact the mating surface, if you paint your plane. It took a long time to file down the surface; I'm still not sure we took off enough.We're going to pick up with page 11-03 tomorrow.