06/01/2018 Horizontal Stabilizer-Primed Elevator Hinge Bearing and First Mistake(1 hour)

Today I primed the hinge bearing VA-146 and a little rough area of the hinge bracket.

After spraying primer on the first side of VA-146, I was not patient enough and flipped the piece around in about 15 minutes before it’s completely dried to start applying primer on the other side. Well, the end result is that some of the wet primer just flow through the masking tape and found the inner bearings including the rubber. While the most inner bearing can still rotate freely, I’m not quite sure if these extra primer will cause any problem in the future when grease is applied.

So to be safe I went online and ordered another VA-146 bearing(and those two brackets that need to be match drilled). It’s probably going to be a week before I receive the replacements. I’ll move on to the front spar assembly at the mean time.