My progress has been slowed lately because I have a mountain of work to do at church and because I have to proseal most of the joints in the belly skin. Once I apply the proseal, I cleco every hole and then let the proseal cure over 2 or 3 days. Then, I remove the clecoes and rivet. Tonight, I riveted the previously prosealed longitudinal ribs for the belly skin. This is the hardest riveting of the belly skin because you have to put your hand under the rib to buck the rivets. It is a very tight fit and it is hard to hold the bucking bar steady in such a small place. Nonetheless, I got it all riveted. Tomorow, I will proseal the longitudinal ribs to the floor board.
Squeezing my hand under the rib to buck the rivets
The rib has been riveted to the belly skin (next it is riveted to the floor board)