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Stevens Web Site
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Date: 1-26-2008
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Number of Hours: 4.60
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Brief Description: Riveted the remaining belly skin and fabicated the
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Today, Jim Anderson and I spent the morning going to a gun show. Then, we had lunch at Los Hermanos, a great mexican restaurant near my home. After that repast, we tackled the final riveting of the belly skin. The proseal had cured enough from the following day so that we could work with the rivets without too much mess. I crawled under the fuselage (perched, upside down, on some saw horses) with the rivet gun and Jim bucked the rivets with my tungsten bucking bar from the top. The remaining belly skin ribs went in without too much trouble. Then, we tackled the rivet line which attached the edge of the skins to the rest of the fuselage. Two of the five most forward 1/8" rivets gave us fits because there was no room to buck the rivets inside. I used every bucking bar that I could get my hands on to try to get to the shop end of the rivets to no avail. I even tried to use a hatchet blade to buck the little stinkers. Finally, I settled on the end of a pry bar as a bucking surface. It was the only thing skinny enough to reach the rivets. Later, after dinner, I went down into the shop again to fabricate the cooling ramp. It went together fairly easily by drilling the assembly to the bench top and fixing the whole thing with clecoes.
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Belly skin ribs, riveted in (primer repaint to follow)
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Cooling ramp, clecoed to the bench top
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