Tonight Steve and I were finally able to get our schedules together to rivet the bottom skins on the left wing. I did a little work ahead of time, including running screws through the nut plates on the bottom wing access panels so they would not be so tight. Some people run taps through them, but I tried that and it made the threads too loose. Steve has longer arms than I do, not to mention more slender, so he bucked every single rivet on the bottom skins, except the ones I had already done.
We drove rivets nonstop from 7:30 to 11:30 pm. Steve looked ready to drop when he left.
Running # 8 screws through the nutplates to loosen them up a little.
Steve reaching way into the wing to get the bucking bar on the rivet.
Steve claims to be an attorney, but looks like a vet wannabe to me.
