4th
March
2009
Right fuel tank riveting
Hours: 4.8 | Posted in Fuel TanksRiveted the top side of the right tank, wet-installing the rivets. Slow process, but fewer bad rivets than last time; cleaning the bucking bar after every rivet instead of every other rivet seemed to help. I riveted the tank standing on its end, then laid a sock in the rib being riveted. The bucking bar rests on the sock and lines up well with the rivet tail; this made it easier to keep the bar aligned with the rivet when doing the necessary blind bucking on the forward part of the curved tank surface.
