Wow,
it feels like I've been at work for almost 2 weeks straight… oh
wait… that's because I have! But you know what, I'm home
now, and with time to devote to the plane. So, I'm off…
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(10-20 step 6): First
thing I did was begin riveting the aft bottom skin to the side
skins. I used the swivel rivet set for the rivets along each side
except for the aft-most ones... I squeezed those. I then had
Angela come out and shoot all the remaining rivets while I
bucked. Some of the rivets around the F-1012 bulkhead were quite
a challenge to get a bucking bar on! Some of these proved to be
some our poorest rivets.
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(10-21 step 4):
Next up was to squeeze the rivets attaching the side skins to the
longerons, but only the ones that fall under the aft deck. The
ramaining ones will be done when the top skins are attached. A
few of the holes under the aft deck don't get rivets at this time
because they will get the screws that attach the empennage fairing
(much later!) Just about all of these rivets were pretty
easy. The only exception were the ones that also attach the
F-1010 bulkhead. You can't get the squeezer on these so I had
Angela shoot them for me again.
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(10-20 step 7):
Only thing left before attaching the top deck is to rivet the
rudder stop skin stiffeners to the rudder stop brace. I was
originally worried I wouldn't be able to get a squeezer on these
because it's pretty tight in there, but I was just able to as you can
see.
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| Next up I used the alodine pen to touch up some of the scratches in the primer we created. |
(10-21 step 5): I
finished up the night by clecoing the aft deck in place.
Underneath the deck is the F-1010B spacer and at the rear is the
F-1012D up elevator stop. I put some masking tape over the holes
I won't be riveting in this step... better safe than sorry! These
holes are where the stop doubler & the attachment bar support angle
will go in the next couple of steps.
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| Pretty tired right now so rather than screw something up I think I'll call it a night here. |
