Brief Description: Finished riveting top skin on left wing
Tonight was a big night! Miss Vick came down to the basement to help finish riveting the top skins to the left wing. She manned (or, I guess womanned) the 3 pound bucking bar while I back riveted from the back side of the wing. She really had to push on the bar to keep all of the rivets flush. All night, I only had to drill out 3 rivets, and they were all my fault. A little tip. Squeeze the bottom row of rivets with a manual rivet squeezer. Trying to back rivet them creates a mess because there is not enough room to fit the back rivet set. I used the manual rivet squeezer because you have to finness the head in there to reach the back side of the rivets. A pneumatic squeezer is just a little too difficult to handle, so the manual squeezer works best. In the end, we admired our handiwork and I wrote "Miss Vick", the name of our ship, on the wing tip.
Squeezing the bottom row of rivets with the manual squeezer
Vicki bucking the rivets from the top side
Miss Vick looking at the name of the ship written in Sharpie on the wing tip
