It's freezing outside. The worst cold snap Texas has had literally in my whole life. Not much to do in the shop anyways, but I did sneak out to Lowes today and get some miscellaneous tools and the items I need to finish my support tables for the DRDT-2. I repurposed some side-tables that had been in the garage for a long time. They were kinda of nice, but just didn't match any of stuff and we hadn't used them in 10 years. Cut the legs off to the perfect height and wrapped it in some old carpet. I'm very happy with how it turned out. I was also becoming less happy with my work benches. The plywood top that I put on them was bowed, and I really thought I could take it out when I screwed it down but the overhangs still tended to curl up. I drove some shims between the top and the support frame to take most of the bow out of it. Much better now; I think it will do. I was warming up a bit in the shop and decided to drill out the trailing edge on the practice kit to try to better align the skins and re-rivet. I had seen a tip to drill out -3's with a 3/32 bit and not a #40. That worked well, and I even tried a 15/64 bit and it was even better. The 3/32 punch fits very tight and the head pops right off. I'll be using that method going forward. It is difficult to align the trailing edge wedge on the practice kit because they do not go through the proseal or double sided tape method; just trying to hold alignment while back-riveting. I thought I was doing ok, but the final product of the re-rivetted trailing edge is terrible. There is a lot of pillowing and the shop head is not large enough to really secure it. I'm going to be very anxious of this stage on the actual plane. Good thing I have another practice kit - I may try to double sided tape method. Van's said my empennage should ship on March 8th! Purchases: Lowes Staple Gun, misc tools