Monday, February 10, 2025

Left Wing Bottom Skin

I finally got up the energy to reorganize the shop again so I could get back to riveting the wings.  I strapped up the inside skin of the left wing and started with the rear spar rivets.  It hasn't been that long since I did the right wing, but I was all thumbs with the riveting.  It took a while to get into the groove again.


Once I got down three or four rows, the riveting got a lot easier.  Just like on the right wing, I decided to put in plenty of dings by the flap outside bracket in order to give me more practice with filling before paint.  The inside rivets are just super close to the bracket, and the gun with the normal rivet set won't fit.  I tried multiple different approaches, but nothing really worked.  I had the same issue on the right wing.  I'm sure there is some specialty set I could buy.  Maybe next time.

I was able to get all of the riveting done down to the spar flange.