Monday, December 22, 2014

HS Complete (well almost) - 4.5 hours



On a bit of a roll from yester day, I set out to complete the horizontal stabilizer. With the lessons learned, I made relatively short work of it. The process of yesterday was repeated and overall everything went excellent. I think if memory serves me, I only used two opps rivets on the right side (I think only one on the left side).  I'm very pleased with the riveting....I am feeling quite comfortable with it now and notice that its best with the bucking bar in my left hand, and the rivet gun in the right.
A setting of 1.5 on my rivet gun with a "1 mississippi" count yields a near perfect set rivet for a -3 rivet. A setting of 3 with the same count is near perfect for a -4 rivet. I am beginning to "hear" when the rivet is set. There is no doubt now that I think I have turned a bit of a corner with the riveting.....Much to my relief.
The horizontal stabilizer is now complete (well with the rear spar, HS0005 and HS0006 not installed to allow for the MD-RA inspection. 



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