Brief Description: Rivet Top Skins to Rear Spar/Inboard Rib
I woke up early this morning and fired up the compressor and squeezed all of the rivets along the inboard rib and the rear spar. The top main skins are done!!!! I had some difficulty riveting the 5 inboard-most rivets along the rear spar because of the 3 layers of aluminum plates on inboard end of the rear spar. I couldn't get the yoke of the squeezer close enough to set these rivets properly. The dies caught only half the rivet and buggered them up. These will need to be drilled out and bucked. I left these 5 rivets open on the left wing and would have been wise to do so here as well. I will wait until I have the right wing in the cradle and take care of these rivets on both wings at the same time since the wings will be aft end up and it will be easier to get to them at that point. Once I had the top main skins riveted on, I finished deburring the other side of the bottom outboard skin that I had started deburring the other day.
Pneumatic squeezer - inboard rib complete; rear spar started
