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Jeff & Jackie's RV-8 Project
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Date:  6-14-2006
Number of Hours:  2.25
Manual Reference:  7-9
Brief Description:  Rivet bottom inboard wing skin (left wing)

More wing skin riveting. We're slow, but we're getting the hang of it. -ish. We nearly got done this evening. We've done all the rivets that require the skin to be bent away; all the rest can be reached through the access panels. My Aircraft Spruce order arrived today, so now I have the adel clamp that I want to use to keep the plastic pitot tube away from the aileron bellcrank. I think it will work well, with the slight annoyance that in order to rivet the nutplate to the forward side of the spar web I'm going to have to remove the tank. What a pain in the butt!! Ah well, no matter. Before I do that though, I want to check some other builder sites to see a) what they've done, and b) whether the clamp itself might interfere with the aileron bellcrank. I don't think so, but I don't want to go to all the hassle of removing the tank to fit the one single nutplate, only to discover I still have a problem! Watch this space...
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Riveting the bottom inboard skin; awkward!

Riveting the bottom inboard skin; awkward!

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The rivets on the inside

The rivets on the inside

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