Finished riveting lower deck. Riveted aft arm rest to skins and bulkheads. Installed rear seat belt support brackets. Riveted gussets to bulkheads and floor support angles. Scuffed center section caps for primer.
Monthly Archives: May 2016
Aft skins: 7.0 hours
Finished riveting the aft side skins. Began riveting lower aft skins and lower deck.
Side skin riveting: 2.9 hours
Continued riveting aft side skins.
Skin riveting: 3.2 hours
Continued riveting mid side skins and began riveting aft side skins.
Fuselage riveting: 2.9 hours
Continued riveting forward and mid skins. The upper forward skin rivets are challenging as I have to turn the air pressure up to almost 80 psi!
More riveting: 4.6 hours
Continued riveting the forward and mid side skins.
Forward skin riveting: 7.1 hours
Finally began forward side skin riveting!
Firewall doubler & skin riveting: 8.1 hours
Fabricated cockpit fuel line standoffs. Fabricated and riveted firewall doubler for fuel line elbows. Installed remaining fuel return line.
Riveted forward and mid skins at spar location. I decided to rivet this area before riveting skins to ribs for better access and use of solid rivets instead of blind rivets.
Brake lines and riveting: 8.7 hours
Finished brake line installation, drilled firewall for fuel return line, fabricated fuel return line from firewall, installed nut plates for adel clamps. Began riveting forward side skins.
Fuel lines and rudder pedals: 7.3 hours
Had to move and fabricate a new fuel return line to accommodate the starter wire. Drilled holes in LG bulkheads for starter wire. Drilled hole positions in rudder pedal slide bar. Spot primed scuffs.
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