Today was the first day of actual construction work since my deployment. I have spent the last week reviewing my construction log and notes I wrote down before leaving. I wanted to make sure I picked up right where I left off.
As this is the last of the riveting before "flipping the canoe" all these rivets require two people. I can not reach the rivet with the bucking bar AND handle the rivet gun at the same time. My wife volunteered to come over and set rivets. So we started on F-772, the bottom skin under the cabin, and finished that first. I have one rivet to drill out. Rather than hold up the show for that rivet, I marked it and we moved on to the two lines of rivets for the center section. After a lunch break we finished the F-770 side skins. All that is left before "flipping the canoe" is the rivets on the back portion of the cabin (the baggage area.) About sixty, or so, to finish. You can see what is left in picture three.
Tomorrow is a holiday, so maybe we will get them done then.
