Brief Description: finished rivets in the gear towers
I went back and finished off the four rivets in the gear towers. I was debating whether or not to use blind rivets here as the access is very tough to drive the rivets well. I spent a good deal of time trying to decide how I was going to drive these rivets with the resources I had and no bucking bar seemed to be usable. I had to modify my tungsten bar by grounding down the top of it so that it would fit. I did have to remove some of the screw/bolt combinations, 4 on each side in order to gain access to the area that the bucking bar needed to be in took me some time remove and replace - but I was able to re-torque all of the gear tower bolts on the WD-822 weldment to 28 in/lbs as speced by Vans.
Averaging almost an hour per rivet to not what I wanted - I am happy that the rivets have been driven and I can move forward to the empennage attachment.
