Each of the holes in the fuselage was neatened up by taking a soldering iron and melting the edge of the covering down while making sure the hole was round. A handy way to get the holes sealed around the edges, I might add.

Now that the tail of the plane is pretty much done, I went ahead and mounted the elevator servos. I made sure to take the servo out after the holes were drilled and hardened the servo screw holes with thin CA. I wouldn't want a screw to pull out in flight! I securely soldered a 24" twisted heavy duty 18 gauge wire extension to the servo lead. Each wire was individually insulated with heat shrink tubing and then all three wires were pulled together with a final piece of heat shrink tubing. This ensures the leads can't pull apart and that I have the best connection possible between the extension and the servo wire...as close to zero loss as possible.