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Riveted the side rails to the firbeglass front fairing. Since I don't the longeron yoke as required by the KAI I reverted to manual riveting with my pneumatic riveting hammer and bucking bar. Because I was initially was not sure if this was a feasible approach, I turned down the air pressure to 80 PSi. This worked quite well and I only damaged the gel coat a one tiny edgy of one rivet only. Only later I realized that I accidentially used AN-426AD3-5 on all rivet holes instead of the requested AN-426AD3-4 as per KAI on some. Still the result looks very good and the longer rivets didn't start to bend instead of flattening in the end, so that I I will leave it as is.

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