Not much tonight. I put rivets in the remaining top skin holes and did some better inspection of the rivets we set a few days ago. All the rivets look great, but I’m less than perfectly content with some of my edges. The tank-top-skin seam has a really tiny step to it. I rolled the edge a little, but I probably could have gone a little more with it. Also, my very nice scarf joint turned out to not be perfectly flush either. It’s not anything I’m going to change, I’m just going to have to accept that I’m not going to win any awards.
Anyway, I put the rivets in and put a piece of tape over each one.
Rivets and tape.
Rivets and tape and rivets and tape and rivets and tape.
After 45 minutes of that, I grabbed my right outboard aileron bracket and decided to tackle the bad rivet and small gap.
Here’s the bad rivet. The shop head just barely started to split.
Yikes.
It also cause the part to separate a little.
This is not acceptable.
After drilling out the two closest rivets…
Whoa. That's weird.
Anyway, I got a small clamp out….
Better.
And re-set those two rivets.
Shop heads look much better, and now there is no gap
Since I had scuffed up the parts a little while riveting, I shot a little more primer on everything.
The blue tape is there to protect the bearing. Didn't want any paint on them.
1.0 hour today…pretty boring. Drilled two rivets out, but now I’m ready for Joe to come over and knock this wing out.
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