Tonight I used my little 12" Di-Acro Brake to bend up the floor stiffeners. Here
they are after the first bend.
...and after the two outside bends. These should do a fine job of stiffening up the floor,
and the rounded ridge is nice and smooth so it won't wear through the foil wrapper of my fireproof
insulation (to be trapped between the sub floor and the bottom skin. There's no way these would
have turned out as nice as they did without that little brake. I'm glad I upgraded from that POS
Harbor Freight brake I used to have.
This stack represents half of the required stiffeners. The other half go between the outboard
floor stiffeners and the lower longerons. Since those two members are not parallel, the length of
each of those stiffeners will vary somewhat. I'll work on converting the other half of the elevator
skin into those stiffeners tomorrow.