Now that the pushrods are ready for use, it was time to put the long elevator one the tail and into place. Well, first I had to move the plane out of the garage so I could get enough room to put the pushrod in the back. I got some help from David and Rosie to move the plane out and chock the wheels.

I put some weight on the front (the tail is supported in the garage so I don't need it, but rolling the plane out, the support was gone), put the pushrod in, saw it get jammed in the central bushing on the rivets, so I pulled it out and used a steel file to knock down the tops of the rivets a little bit. I did another test run, saw I needed to file a little more off, and did that a few times until the pushrod went *almost* through the bushing. Then I used some grease and put it all over the inside of the bushing. I held the front of the plane while David pushed on the pushrod until it popped through. Success!! And, frankly, not that hard to do. The hard part was moving the plane, handling the long rod, and moving the plane back, so I was glad to get that done while David was here.