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Date:  3-19-2006
Number of Hours:  1.75
Manual Reference:  29
Brief Description:  Continued riveting substructure

As I had said in my previous post, the rivets that go into the WD weldments are a bitch. On each one of those the most forward rivet, top and bottom, are impossible to get to because of the angle of the weldment and the actual piece of aluminium angle that rims the firewall. My solution to this was some selective trimming of the firewall angle as you can see in the pictures below. This shouldn't affect the structure whatsoever as long as you leave some material and don't take it all the way to the bend. Out of the 8 impossible rivets all but one turned out good. That one that didn't I decided to leave as it was more likely for it to be worse once drilled out. One rivet at 50% out of all of them is fine.
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You can see the impossible rivet directly abopve the aluminum angle.

You can see the impossible rivet directly abopve the aluminum angle.

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Much better access after trimming.

Much better access after trimming.

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All WD's riveted and the longerons in place.

All WD's riveted and the longerons in place.

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