Riveting the right aileron - 3 hours

Well...Having a difficult time riveting the top skins on the aileron to the spar. I have cut down the wood shim to lower the bucking bar which provides a much better angle to the rivet. When eyeing it up it is perfectly flat to the rivet.

But unfortunately the rivet has a tendency to dump down. I tried various configurations of the bucking bar, different shims, positions, ect. They all have a tenancy to slump the rivet down. I am puzzled. I finally defaulted back to the method I had used on the flaps and taped the end of the bar up to give proper offset.

This resulted in an acceptable rivet set. The tricky part is to set the rivets that are directly in line with the stiffeners. Seems that I may need to default back to the other bar setups to clear these.


Not the easiest riveting, but I am happy with how it turned out.