Brief Description: Rivittin the fuselage skins along top longeron
Rivitting the fuselage skins along the upper longeron from the rear seat bulkhead forward exept the holes reserved for the front top skin. The front baggage area was easy to squeeze with the pneumatic squeezer but became quite difficult when I got to the engine mount weldment. Those needed to be bucked and are fairly challenging to get to cleanly due to the other rivits that are protruding from above.
The rivits along the side rails were next and I ended up needing to remove the static line to get to them better. Most were easy to buck. Had to remove some pop rivits installed from the factory and replace with solids. The real difficulty came when trying to buck rivits behind the front seat back support plate. A longer bucking bar would have been real helpful here! No room for the hands-finge tip only. This was very time consuming and did not even get to the other side yet. Brenda was very helpful here since it requires two hands to hold the bar in that tight space.
Inside front baggage hold looking at engine weldment rivits
Pic taken into a mirror behind the seat back plate. Those were some difficult rivits!
Right side upper lo the front top skin rivitsngeron rivits are set-minus
