Wow, today was a big day at the shop... a hole day of focused work and the metal work for the horizontal stabilizer is complete. After fabrication and fitting everything it all gets taken apart and deburred, dimpled, primed, and then strategically reassembled so that rivets can be reached. Pretty cool.
these flush rivets are in the field of the skin and driven with a flush set in the gun with one hand while reaching into the structure and holding a bucking bar to form a shop head. the ware marks are from setting the rivet and buff right out as part of painting prep... much later
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| flush riveting the skins |
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| lots of part preparation... deburring, fluting, dimpling, priming... |
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| squeezer in action dimpling a rib that supports the skin |
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| a long reach dimpler for the skins |
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| skin dimpling action shot |
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| all of the parts are now ready for assembly and riveting |
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| mirror shot for the man |
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| universal head rivets on the trailing spar elevator hinge brackets |
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| horizontal stabilizer trailing spar |
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| flush riveting the skins |
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| ta da <grin> |
