March 23, 2005

5 steps backwards, few forward

Well this is going to be one long arduous process, I got the rivets in the forward spar and they look like crap, I had to move on, hopefully I will replace them with better quality or maybe I will just accept them. I couldn't get the 3 inch yoke in there so I had to use the rivet gun with the bent driver. So I moved on and made some pretty good progress riveting the skin, I even partially riveted the aft spar, now I know what people are talking about when they mention grinding the yoke on the squeezer. For now I will just use the gun instead. So getting most of the inboard rivets on the 405 I looked up at the print and realized that I wasn't supposed to rivet where the fairing was to be attached. It is late and I am going to bed. If this plane doesn't kill me, it will be a miracle.