Well. I managed to get Joe over to the house again, this time over a long lunch break.
This is a horrible picture, but you can sort of see that we got about half of the right wing’s top skins riveted.
We moved the tape off the rivet heads to air in inspection, but I'm going to reuse them later when I put the rest of the rivets in.
We’ve got my rivet gun (4x) set to about 32 psi (really hard to tell) and Joe’s getting good at pulling the trigger to get about 8 hits. Sometimes 7, sometimes 9. About once every 20 rivets, we’ll need to add a few hits, and once in another 20 rivets, it’ll be about 2 hits too much. Slightly flat, but within milspec, and not worth drilling out and making it worse.
It was an hour’s worth of work, but there were two of us, so I’m going to start counting it as man-hours instead of just my hours.
In the next few days, I need to put rivets in all the remaining holes and get tape over them. Hopefully just one more hour until I have the right top skins completely on!
2.0 man hours. 173 rivets (I counted three times), and none needed to be drilled out (Nice job, Joe!).
(I’m going to go back and change the other post to include Joe’s hours.)
Andrew's RV-7 Build Log 