Wings Skins, part 2
I got the top, most inboard, skin attached today. Mostly. It still requires a few more rivets on the bottom. The skins proved to be a bit more challenging than I thought. The job seems pretty straight forward, insert rivets, backrivet them in place. Vans suggests you get a tool like this.
I found it to be very frustrating to keep steady. So eventually I gave up. Michelle and I had set about 25 rivets and I had to go back and fix about 8. That is dismal. I was going to sell this set, but have decided to hold on to it in case there is something coming that requires it.
I think the standard bucking bar/rivet set worked great. We couldn’t have set these any better.
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