Used most of my energy the last couple of days shoveling wet snow. Had about 12" from the recent storm, too wet for my snowblower. Wore out two snow shovels.. Had no power for about 36 hours, so kept feeding gas to my 1500 watt generator every two hours to keep the hot water oil heat running. Weather in the mid 40's and some light rain yesterday and today, so the snow is melting pretty good.
Installed over 300 rivets today to complete sheet F10, Fuselage Fwd Side Panels. I had the complete forward fuselage clecoed and most of the AN3 bolts installed to ensure everything stayed aligned during riveting.
I had not installed all the AN3 bolts and found I had to remove several rivets around the bottom of the verticals to get the bolts in. Also had to remove the rivets along the sides of the outboard rudder blocks to get the blocks to fit in.
Updrilled the stainless steel firewall for the 1/8" rivets. Some builders have had trouble drilling the stainless, but with a cobalt #30 bit and fairly slow speed with my variable speed hand drill, I had no problems.
