Friday, July 7, 2023

Fuselage Center Section #10 - More baggage compartment riveting

 More baggage compartment riveting:

On to riveting the right side ribs to the assembly.


And the nutplates.

And the rivets in between the nutplates

And the standoff clips.


And the floor to ribs.

More nutplates.

In order to rivet the front of the ribs to the center section bulkhead, I had to insert the rivet with the puller collapsed.

And then once it is in the hole, release the handle and do the pull.

The top rivet has to be bent after inserting in the puller.

Also requires the use of the angle tool.

Looks like this before getting inserted in the hole.


All done!
Separating the aft stub spar doubler plates.

Removing and deburring the flashing.

Cleaning up the aft wing stub spars to check the fit with the pockets that get installed in the fuselage.

One side looks good!
The other side looks good!  I marked all of these to ensure they go back in the correct places.

Fitting the pockets and doublers to the aft bulkhead.

Other side done.

Deburred all the parts!

Dimpled the 120° holes in between the nutplates in the aft ribs.

Dimpled some more nutplate holes in the aft ribs.

Checking the fit of the aft bulkhead.
Deburring the rest of the ribs.

Even more dimpling for nutplates.

Had to switch yokes to dimple these holes as the nose of the longeron yoke was too long to allow for the dimpling.

Installed the nutplates.

Cleco'ed the aft ribs.


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