So this entry actually covers 2 days; Yesterday I rolled the leading edge for the right elevator and spend about 5 hours struggling with it. I used a 1.25" galvanized water pipe that I had laying round and thought that I followed the process as specified in section 5. However, it was a real struggle to get the overlapping top edge to lay down flat.

It seemed like no matter how much I finessed it, either the top layer was bowed up at the edge or between rivet holes, or the bottom layer was bent so much that I couldn't pull it tight with just clecos. I messed with it for at least a couple of hours before I got a passible result, but it still had some pillowing between the 6 outbd rivets on the center section.

I researched it afterward and people have reported better results with less effort if they bolt the pipe down with J bolts thru the table top at the hinge cutouts. Also, I got the impression that the pipe diameter was maybe a little too big.

Today, I went to Ace and picked up a couple of j- bolts with about a 1" inside diameter, and took the handle off a leaf rake I happened to have that was 7/8' diameter, to see if I could get a better result.

While it was definitely easier to roll with this setup, I gotten exact same result. I fought with it for a couple of hours, and then just admitted defeat and riveted it with pillowing in exactly the same area. I went back and pulled 5 extra rivets between the OEM locations on both elevators and they both look good at this point.

Don't know what I did wrong here, but If I ever build another elevator set, I'll go right to the extra rivet solution the second I see a problem and save myself several hours of frustration.