I primed the bottom of the baggage floor and while it was drying, added more nutplates (come on, Van's... how long does it take you to fill the backordered bag, anyway?) after dimpling them by hand.
Once dry, I started riveting the baggage ribs to the floor.The manufactured head where they attack to the center section needs to go on the forward side and there's very little room to work. I decided after riveting one pop rivet at the very bottom of "21" rib (the last of the rivets in that rib), I would take a break to consider how to do a better job.
Upon thinking, shortening the stem so the puller doesn't have to open as wide to insert the full stem and using the wedge took and bending the stem at an angle seems like the best possibility.
I actually came to this realization while working on that low rivet but decided not to bend the stem and having it risk breaking off with a partially pulled rivet. The resulting rivet was no lesson in good riveting but it's the best of a difficult situation .
