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Date:  4-9-2012
Number of Hours:  4.00
Manual Reference:  Page 7-8
Brief Description:  Right wing top skins part #5

Bit of a marathon today.

Started by clecoing the skins in every other hole and made sure the scarf joint was good.

I had my daughter Lauren come in and help me buck the rivets. I had an extended off-set back rivet set and Lauren used the bucking bar so that we could back rivet the skins. We started on the outboard edge and moved our way in.

I had all of the rivets set in place and held in place with a piece of scotch tape. Lauren decided that she would mark every one that she bucked with a red X so she knew where she was at.

After bucking every second rivet, Lauren removed the clecoes and I had her insert the appropriate rivets, which were coverd with tape. My yongest Christina lent a hand with that as well.

We took a break as she was getting tired and some of the rivets had to be drilled out as they weren't completely flush. No biggie.

I took the time to squeeze in most of the trailing edge rivets to rear spar. The first few inboard rivets had to be bucked.
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Right wing top skin clecoed in place.

Right wing top skin clecoed in place.

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Half way there.

Half way there.

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Lauren removing clecoes and inserting the rivets.

Lauren removing clecoes and inserting the rivets.

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