I am at the stage of fitting my horizontal stab and elevators to the fuselage. I had already drilled the elevator control horns to each other by clamping the counterbalance arms to the horizontal stab to align everything. That all went fine. The problem is when I put it on the fuselage and bolted it to the pushrod, it became very obvious that even though the counterbalance arms are both still lined up with the horizontal stab, the elevator trailing edges are not even with each other (the left trailing edge looks like it sets about 1/2" lower than the right). I know a lot of people have misaligned trailing edges, but I'm not sure what is too much and will show up in flight. I'm trying to figure out if I should just leave it as-is, rebuild the entire left elevator, drill out some rivets and reset existing parts (although not sure that would help), etc. The right elevator is perfectly flat and straight. The left is harder to judge with the big cutout for the trim tab.
I'm not sure if it's related, but the right counterbalance arm sits 1/8" away from the horizontal stab and is nice and even. The left counterbalance arm is closer to 1/4" and not perfectly even with the tip of the horizontal stab.
I'm not sure if it's related, but the right counterbalance arm sits 1/8" away from the horizontal stab and is nice and even. The left counterbalance arm is closer to 1/4" and not perfectly even with the tip of the horizontal stab.