Sunday, November 15, 2020

Started riveting the forward fuselage pieces - 8 hours

 Now that the primer has had a day to cure. I started in on riveting. First piece was to rivet nutplates onto the F-684 gussets and then rivet the gussets to the firewall. Admittedly I didn't get all of the rivets pointed the same direction as after the first three, I then noticed I didn't have enough clearance to get the squeezer in there. Oh well, not a big deal at all and nobody is ever going to look at it. 


Next step I need to install the six AN426AD4-9 rivets at the bottom of the firewall that I didn't install originally (As I didn't have enough rivets).

I installed the nutplates on the F-902/F-724/F-722 bulkheads. I riveted the F-7101/F-902 assembly. Then riveted on the fabricated flanges on the F-724 bulkhead. 

Next I riveted the F-719 skin stiffener and clips

Still on a roll, I riveted the F-704H side plate onto the F-770 side skins.