A pause in proceedings

I'm not sure what happened to last week. I think a combination of busy home life and very cold nights and preparations for a weekend away. The long and short is no time spent in the ACF during the week. On the long weekend Carol and I enjoyed a couple of days camping in the Flinders Ranges. We had a great time but it did not advance airplane construction one iota.

Tonight I repaired to the ACF determined to move forward once again. I fired up the heater and resumed work on the stabilator. I  finished preparation (deburring and countersinking) of the hinge brackets, the spar cap spacers and the doublers. Here are the spacers and doublers ready for assembly:

The next step is to cleco the Spar Cap Spacers, the Inspar Ribs and the two spar caps together  ready for riveting. it looks like this.

You wouldn't believe it,  the ACF heater chose this moment to expire for lack of fuel. With the ambient temperature hovering around 3 degrees C, it was not hard to persuade this constructior to retire the the warmth of the house. Hence another pause in construction........

Looking ahead at the plans I see one of the next steps involves the missing part from the kit, one of the stabilizer horns. This is supposedly in transit from Vans, though no yet to hand. I think I'll send an email to confirm it is on it's way.