Riveting Bottom Left inboard wing skin - 7 hours

Thankfully its a holiday today so I managed to put in a good day of riveting. As I've worked my way from the trailing edge to the leading edge of the skin on the root end of the wing. I was careful to position the bar so that it allowed me to set the new rivets on the spar flange, but not so far forward that it has interfered with previously set rivets. The trick I used was to tape a large popsicle stick to the bottom of the bucking bar and the stick is cut to length so that it acts like a position stop for the bar. I slide the bar up till the popsicle stick touches the spar...and the bar is set far back enough to set the new rivet.

I continued to rivet in the Vans suggested manner of the "L" shape. Its slow work as I checked each and every rivet.


I managed to set all the rivets in the 4 ribs