May 17, 2006 - Rivet Left Aft Seat Floor |
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| I thought that before I continued with the flap channel, I had better rivet the aft seat floors down. But first, I fit one of the removable side panels in as shown below. It fit nicely. | ||||||
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The next step was to rivet the two nutplates where the center bearing
block bolts down. These nutplates are a little unusual in that
they are AN-3 nutplates instead of #8 screws. I think the AN-3
right hand nutplate is the only one of its kind used in the entire kit.
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| The last shot of the center section before it gets covered up with the aft seat floors. | ||||||
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I started with the left floor. First I clecoed it down.
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| Then I started pop-riveting. | ||||||
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| Close up. | ||||||
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| Done with the left side, except for the nutplates along the inside edge. I had to use one of my "side filed off" rivet-pullers to rivet the edge alongside the skin. | ||||||
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