Brief Description: Hand Squeeze Fuselage Nut Plates / Port
Got out to the hanger about 1 PM today. Cleco’ing of the Port side nut plates was completed yesterday. All that remains is hand squeezing. Completed the Port nut plate riveting via hand squeezing AN426-3-3 solid aluminum rivets. Several rivets needed to be done with rivet hammer and bucking bar as the rivet sqeezer head was unable to gain access to the rivet. Haven't used this method in a while but there were no issues other than bouncing around and just being plain slow.
Image #1 shows Port nut plates cleco'd to the fuselage frame. Image #2 shows the completed riveted nut plates to the Port side of the fuselage and Image #3 shows the Port skin rough attached to the fuselage using periodic 10-32 truss head and AN525 washer head machine screws.
