Saturday, February 4, 2023

Center Section Bottom Skin (2)

It took a lot of stretching and contorting, especially for the lines of rivets towards the center, but I was able to get the bottom skin riveted by myself.



The next step is to match drill the baggage and seat floors.  It's actually starting to look like a cockpit!



When putting in the baggage floors I found an error that I had to correct.  I put the nutplates onto the baggage ribs a few days ago.  Once I put the floor in place though, I realized that the nutplate is actually supposed to be attached to both the rib and the floor sheet together.  I drilled out the rivets and pulled the nutplates off of the ribs.

My back is incredibly tired from all of the stretching and bending with the riveting, so even though I have time left in the day, I'm done!  Tomorrow I'll finish clecoing on the flooring and get it match drilled.  I'm getting close to the point where the center section will be flipped over and attached to the tailcone.