Thursday, August 29, 2024

Right Wing - Bottom Skin (2)

More work on the right wing today.  It's slow going, but I finished up the top 1/3 of rivets.  I'm guessing the rest will go a little faster.  Small bite size chunks will get it done.  It can get a little monotonous (you can't see the shop heads, so you have to rivet, then feel with your finger, rivet again, feel, etc).  My "well duh" moment for today was the fact that I can't just finish the outboard skin and then slide the inboard skin underneath at the joint.  I mean, I can, but then I won't be able to bend up the inboard skin to rivet the top rivets!  Duh.  So I need to make more room by pulling out my grinding bench so I can get at the inboard portion and do it in conjunction with the outboard skin.  My grand plan was originally just to do the outboard skins, then swing the stand around to do the inboard.  I realized I never dimpled the inboard skins, so that'll be the next step tomorrow.  That means I need to do some cleaning so I have a place to dimple.  The shop is a mess!


The access holes still needed to have the dimples done for the screws and nutplates riveted on.  Easy enough.