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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Finished riveting left aileron: 10 hours

I got the left aileron all finished today other than installing the bolt on hinge brackets.

Everything went well. There was some tricky riveting but by using techniques from other builders web sites it went fairly easily (not fast). I have come around to using the hand rivet squeezer more. I don't think I will use the pneumatic one unless there are a large number of repetitive rivets to be done.

 

Setting up the leading edge:

 

Riveting stand idea from another builder:

 

This was the hardest riveting:

 

All pop rivets on the bottom of the spar:

 

Finished product: