Monday, August 1, 2016

Finished riveting the right wing skin/rear spar - 3.5 hours

Managed to put in a good solid evening by riveting the top wing skin to the rear spar on the right wing. I took the wing down off the stand and placed it on the table.

I then set up the pneumatic squeezer so that I could squeeze the majority of the rivets. 

Initially I used the standard yoke to get most of the rivets, but as I worked my way inboard, I had to switch to the no hole yoke where the W707G fork stiffener is on the rear spar as there is a reduced amount of room to work with. Once I reached the last few rivet where the W707D doubler is, I had to abandon the squeezer and start bucking rivets as there is just no room. Two rivets in particular are very hard to set as the shop heads of the rivets that attach the first two wing the two. The "L" or Shoe" shaped bucking bar works good hear. Not the easiest, but I managed to set the rivets without too much grief.