(9-2 step 4): Angela
went on to the next step on the elevators this morning, and that was
the tip ribs on the elevator. She deburred them a bit and began
the assembly of them. They proved to be a pretty tight fit.
As she was struggling with them I came out and suggested we get back on
the horizontal stabilizer skins.
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| (8-13 step 2): We
didn't expect our new stash of rivets to show up until at least Monday
so I figured we'd only work on half the horizontal stabilizer until
then. Well… tempted by the fact that we could get this
thing done this weekend if we had the rivets I just decided to cut some
longer rivets down to the right length and get'er done! So that's
what we did! |
While
riveting the 28 1/8" rivets in the spar flange I get a little
over-anxious with the bucking bar on one of them at the same time
Angela was trying a lighter pressure on the gun. With hundreds of
rivets this sort of stuff is bound to happen every once in a
while. I basically pushed the rivet slightly out of the hole
while it was being set resulting in the head protruding above the skin
a 32nd or so... not much but if you ran your hand over the skin quickly
it would definitely draw blood!
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So
I got to drill it out. Turns out this is the last one we had to
drill out on the horizontal stabilizer… so 2 total!
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(8-13 step 5): With
the skins completely riveted to the front spar flanges now we moved on
to the inspar ribs and stringers. There were a bunch of rivets
but Angela & I stuck with it. We bucked just all the ribs and
stringers that we had to and left anything that could be reached with
the squeezer for later (basically the end ribs). Here is a shot
Angela snuck of me checking our work.
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By the end of the day we got'er done! Look ma, no clecoes!!
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