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Date:  2-4-2006
Number of Hours:  5.00
Manual Reference:  Rear Spar Assembly
Brief Description:  Rear Spar Assembly Completed

Today, I started again by disassembling my pneumatic squeezer, but it still seems like it works fine. Think I figured out that there were two problems - (1) I was using the wrong size squeezer sets and (2) because of that I had actually bent the C- yoke on the squeezer so it was out of alignment - guess I will be ordering a new C yoke. So after all the frustration yesterday with the dang pneumatic squeezer, I decided to use the manual squeezer and finish the rear spar. Which I did! I drilled out about 4-5 bad rivets from yesterday, and re did them as well; however, think I will adopt the philosophy that one or two bad rivets will still hold and won't drill out very many more. It's pretty hard and I ended up enlarging the hole for the rivet anyway, which means when I replaced the rivets they didn't end up pretty anyway. Hoping the parts for the forward spar get here soon, so I can start work on that.
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Rear Spar Completed

Rear Spar Completed

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Close up of Bearing Bracket

Close up of Bearing Bracket

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