Friday, September 9, 2016

Finished the right flap - 6 hours

I dove into the right flap feeling confident that I had the knack, and boy was I flying. Again, had the odd rivet to drill out..maybe 2 in all if my memory serves me. It was very easy to reach all the rivets with that thin tungsten bucking bar. Again, the fact that the one end is taped up really saved the day and helped greatly with setting the rivets straight.



Unfortunately I really had some difficulties squeezing the rivets in the end rib. They just wanted to fold over (even when the length was correct). I was using the no-hole yoke and I have to say from past experience, it can be temperamental. Some days it sets just fine, other days not so much. Today it wasn't working well. I had to drill out and re-set a bunch of them, only one hole (top side at the very bottom) I had to drill out a couple times, and ultimately I decided to use an MK-319-BS rivet, which is a tad annoying cause on the left flap I actually was able to set a solid rivet there.