Left Flap Riveting

-Riveted all internal ribs to skins


-Riveted skins together at rear spar
-Found that some offcuts of kaizen foam from my toolbox made holding the bucking bar in place easier


-Realised I was meant to leave one of the bearing attach platenut rivets to go through the 706b so removed the rivet, mounted 706b to 704 rib and riveted together
-Started riveting inboard rib to skins but struggling to get the back of the aft 2 rivets to buck them


-After some reading found that its commonplace on the inboard rib to replace the aft 2x top/bottom & rivet adjacent to platenut with mk319-bs blind rivets, so squeezed those rivets
-Fitted spar and blind riveted spar to ribs
-Fitted hinge & squeezed bottom row of rivets
-Drove top row of rivets
-riveted 7061&b together
-The left flap’s done

Manual Reference: 7-11

InstalledRemoved
Rivets Today2595
Wing Rivets313465
Fuse Rivets240
Empennage Rivets221549
Total Project Rivets5379114
Hours6
Total Hours512.5
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