Saturday, September 4, 2021

Finally finished the Forward Top Skin Riveting - 4 hours

Not the most fun trying to finish riveting the Forward Top Skin. Working solo, this is a bit more tricky than one would think. I managed to set all remaining rivets in the baggage bulkhead as well as set the F-6111 ribs. One really tough rivet to set was the rivet common with the F-6111 rib and the F-705 bulkhead. The area is extremely tight and getting a bucking bar in there is just brutal. I tried setting a AD3 rivet a few times, but it just wasn't setting correctly. In the end I just had to use an MK-319-BS rivet for those two locations.