Brief Description: Finished side skins and nut plates
I noticed today that I had pinched 2 wires between the J-channel (F1486A-L) and left side skin (F1473L) so had to drill out 2 rivets to free the wires. They seemed okay but will do a resistance test with the meter tomorrow. Dimpled the nutplates for the inspection cover using reduced diameter dies. The nut plates along F1418B longeron don't get dimpled and only 6 of the 7 spots for nutplates get installed at this point. The forward most spot will come later. I was able to reach most of the nutplates with the squeezer but did have to change yokes a few times to get it to fit in some of the spaces. Mostly this was along the vertical part of the F1411 bulkhead. The longeron yoke was too big to fit there so had to switch to a regular 3" yoke with the wide flat sets. I also installed the rudder stops. I used the squeezer for the aft two AD4-6 rivets and bucked the two forward rivets. I still need to rivet the F1473A diagonal stiffners and can see the one rivet near the rudder stop may be challenging. Not sure why that one rivet couldn't have been done before the rudder stops were installed. I also counter sunk the top two #27 holes for the inspection cover on each side.
Left side nut plates and rudder stop installed
reduced diameter dimple dies for dimpling nut plates
