Started wing skin riveting on right wing - 5 hours

Before I can start wing riveting, I needed to get that missed countersink taken care of. After the advice I had received this is what I came up with. Fortunately my right angle drill kit comes with a super compact countersink bit.

So with my daughters help, I turned the tank pressure down on the drill and carefully countersunk the hole. Excellent! it worked.



By the time I was done Eugene had come over to help me with the wings skins. So now it was down to business. We mixed up and applied about 30 grams of proseal to the wing walk doubler. He used popsicle sticks to spread it on quite thin. This is done to help improve strength and to prevent corrosion in that area. 


Next we cleco'd the skin/doubler to the wing and got ready to rivet. Eugene had brought a good selection of his trusty bucking bars which made short work of the skins. I worked the gun, while Eugene was on the bucking bar. After about 4 hours of work we had one entire wing skin done and riveted. We made excellent progress today!!!!