Brief Description: Right Wing - Rivet Bottom Skins
I was worried about bucking the rivets along the main spar because of all the nutplates, rivets, ribs, etc that were in the way. I was planning on using my homemade backriveting set inserted into a hole in one of my flat bucking bars for leverage. This worked fine when I was setting the rivets in the wing walk area by myself. But this was very slow and awkward. After talking things over with Matt for a while and looking at the various bucking bars that I had on the shelf, we came up with this great setup. Basically we duct taped 3 layers of tongue depressor's together to be used as a shim or platform to rest a bucking bar that had an offset to it. This aligned the bucking bar perfectly to the row of rivets along the main spar for the bottom skins without danger of dinging the nutplates, spar, ribs, and other rivets. This setup worked out very well. We were able to quickly finish up all of the remaining rivets for the bottom skins of the right wing. One wing done!!! Yeah!!!!
Taped bucking bar sitting on taped popsicle sticks
