I started riveting the second skin to each elevator today. I started by inspecting everything one last time before closing things up.
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Riveting along the rear spar requires a special bucking bar. The plans have you start on the left elevator bottom skin as practice before starting on the upper right elevator skin.
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The riveting required a much longer burst than with the tungsten bucking bar but the rivets came out great.
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The lower rivets on the right elevator trim tab cutout were set with the pneumatic squeezer.
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Next up was the top skin of the right elevator.
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I had one rivet that I forgot to take a picture of earlier that I had previously replaced. The rib flange separated from the rear spar when I set it with the squeezer. When replacing it I flipped the rivet to keep the shop head on the flange side and I set it with the rivet gun instead of the pneumatic squeezer.
I brushed on some additional primer to fix up the scuffs from removing the rivet.
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Next up was setting the blind rivets on the rib halves.
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I put the factory head of the rivet on the flange side of each rib to give me slightly more room. I didn’t have any trouble setting them and didn’t have to make the spacer tool described in the plans.
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Success. Everything is still looking nice and straight. Next up is attaching the front spar assemblies.