Brief Description: Rivet Bottom and Part of Right Side
My brother Matt drove down from NY yesterday. He will be picking up his son Mikhail from BWI on Wednesday since he will be visiting for the holidays. Matt was able to come down a couple of days early though to help me rivet the fuselage together. We were able to knock out everything on the bottom and about half of the right side today. Matt does a great job shooting! I spent the whole day on my knee's bucking. Most of the riveting was straight-forward with great bucking access. There were only a couple of places that were a challenge, access wise. I did end up using a couple of blind rivets in places where it was impossible to buck without messing something up. Probably the most difficult thing today was riveting the curved section along the F706 bulkhead. I ended up back-riveting this area from inside while Matt held a large, heavy bucking bar against the flush manufactured heads on the outside of the skins. This worked out very well - no dents in this difficult transition area.
