Had to use a hand riveter to get the two near the pitot. Hard to pull!! The 3rd rivet on the bottom was done by shortening the rivet (there was a rib not far under the skin).
Taped up all the rivets and started to sand the tops off.
Using course sandpaper the tops come right off.
NEXT TASKS:
- Rivet the one on the step rib that needs special handling.
- Sand off the top of the rivets and fill rivets with Bondo.
- Install landing lights.
- End rib installed (Jig needs to come off).
- Wing tip assembly riveted on and light installation.
- Composite filler for join between wing tip and skins. Perhaps other seams can use some filler?
- Put the aileron and flap on the wing to check for straightness of the trailing edge (Thanks Peter, I saw that on your blog! ;-)). Based on what I'm reading online it seems likely that I'll need to re-rivet some of the aileron/flaps to line up the trailing edges... Wish I knew this before I had riveted them...
- Finish sanding of left wing bottom rivet heads.
- Finish right wing.
- Finally finish one of the composite tips of the elevator.
- Fill rivets of elevator with Bondo.
- START ON FUSELAGE!
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