Brief Description: Back riveted rudder stiffeners to skin.
Today I tried back riveting for the first time. I got the hang of it pretty quickly. The skins look great after back riveting. They do not get scarred and banged up like they do with reguar riveting. I also built the trailing edge squeezer device out of 2X8s and some old door hinges I had in the basement. I started the squeezine process. It is a little difficult and I could not get it squeezed (squoze?) down enough to be right. I checked the web site by Shannon and Kandi Spangler (they are a few weeks ahead of me) and they said squeezing the last little bit with seaming pliers will do the trick. I'll try that tomorrow.
The back riveting setup on the rivet gun.
Using the handy dandy 2X8 brake to bend the rudder trailing edge.
