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Date:  3-8-2013
Number of Hours:  5.00
Manual Reference:  84,74
Brief Description:  Baggage Door forward and aft rib riveting

Time to strap the clecoed baggage door to the fuse to rivet the outer skin of the door on to the forward and aft ribs. The door hinge and angle, and outer baggage door rib is already riveted, was able to squeeze most of these rivents except for a few surrounding the hole for the baggage door lock./ These were driven using the dimple machine, flush set and good ole rubber mallet, three whacks set the rivets here.

Because the challenge is to get the baggage door to fit properly against the fuse, strapping in place should hold the skin and overall door structure in place... I climbed into the fuse with the offset bucking bar, and Rocket usesd the 2x rivet gun to ready-set the rivets on the door in common with the forward and aft ribs.
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Baggage Door strapped in place for riveting

Baggage Door strapped in place for riveting

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Interior View of Baggage Door strapped to fuse

Interior View of Baggage Door strapped to fuse

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Clecoed door in place prior to strapping in place

Clecoed door in place prior to strapping in place

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