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<\/a>Eric bought a creeper for rolling under the fuselage jig.\u00a0 This came in very handy for placing rivets before driving.\u00a0 For sedentary office workers like me, reaching up for a few hours leads to weary arms.\u00a0 So Eric and I traded off on the process.\u00a0 I cleared the holes as needed, deburred the outer skins one more time, then taped the appropriately sized rivets in place for driving.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Next actions for me on the project will be fabricate mounting brackets in the tailcone section for air supply valves, NACA air vents, remote AHARS\/magnatometers, and COM radios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Next steps in the tailcone attachment were final riveting of the side and bottom skins to the fuselage. Eric bought a creeper for rolling under the fuselage jig.\u00a0 This came in very handy for placing rivets before driving.\u00a0 For sedentary office workers like me, reaching up for a few hours leads to weary arms.\u00a0 So …<\/span> Continue Reading →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rv-10-build-project","category-section-32-tailcone-attach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rv10.mirimar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Here Eric drives the lower skins rivets, while I buck them inside the plane.<\/p>\n<\/a>Admiring the right side handiwork prior to setting the last set between the baggage bulkhead and the fore\/aft skin overlap.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>The mid-skin is squeezed onto the longeron.\u00a0 Once completed the overall strength the unit\u00a0 is good.\u00a0 We did not get to the baggage door frames yet, as a question about the lower door shim placement needs to be resolved first.\u00a0 The plans are not very clear on this topic.<\/p>\n<\/a>Final step in the attachment is fasten the 8 baggage ribs to the baggage bulkhead.\u00a0 I used the 5″ yoke and pneumatic squeezer on the middle holes, but had to drive\/buck the upper and lower holes on each rib due to access issues with flanges or tight fits. We had two drill-outs, but the final results are good.<\/p>\n