Brief Description: Riveting the stiffiner to the instrument panel
Rich Donnelly helped me rivet the stiffiner onto the instrument panel's forward face. Reminder: The instrument panel forward face is not the side we'll see from the cockpit...that's the aft face.
We started by mating the dead-center points on the stiffiner and the panel, mating the edges flush, and match-drilling through the stiffiner's predrilled holes. One hole/cleco at a time. As we progressed to the edge, I bent the angle at the notch points so that the angle curved flush with the instrument panel's edge.
Drilling the stiffiner flush to the instrument panel's edge
The instrument panel with the stiffiner riveted into place
