Quote Originally Posted by alexM View Post
The first time I did the task it must have taken two hours to get the top and bottom bolts in, and I must have dropped bolts inside the vertical fin 100 times. I have an idea cooking in my head for a tool (a chunk of my career has been aerospace tool design) to make the job easier. Last night I prototyped my concept by taking a piece of frog tape about 9" long and slicing it into thin strips. I put the thin strip up near the head of the bolt and brought the two ends together in a sloppy tail. Then, grabbing the taped part of the bolt with a pair of needle nose and sticking the tail to the needle nose, I installed the first bolt in seconds.
As usual, there's a tool for that! A few cents cheaper from EAA, if that's all you're ordering.