January 13, 2008 - More Riveting |
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| Tongiht we were riveting the left side of the aft top skin. Here's an action shot of Lynnette riveting. | ||||||
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And me bucking from the right
side. Yeah, bucking is a lot of
fun.
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| If I was starting the project right now, I'd buy one of those tungston bucking bars. But they cost 100 bucks and I don't have that much more riveting to do, so I'm sticking with my steel bar. | ||||||
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| We started on the right side. I had thought I'd have to crawl into the fuse to do this, but I decided to give sticking my arm through the holes in the F-709 bulkhead a try and found it worked fine. | ||||||
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| We quit riveting after doing the right side aft of the F-708 bulkhead. This second night we nailed all the rivets; none require drilling out. | ||||||
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| My next task was to make sure the gear fit in the engine mount and that all the bolts would go in. | ||||||
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| It took a little sanding of the inside of the engine mount tubes, but I got the gear to slide in. I also made sure the gear retaining bolts slide all the way through the engine mount and gear holes. | ||||||
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I made sure the cotter pin fit
through the holes in the axle. I had drilled these holes months last
summer I
think.
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| With the wheel on the axle, I screwed ont he axle nut and made sure the cotter pin went through the axle nut, through the axle, and out the other side of the axle nut. This took a little bit of finagling and needle file work, but I got both sides done. | ||||||
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| I bolted on the brake assembly, and with that the wheel and gear are good to go. | ||||||
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The wheels and gear are ready to go on the airplane. I guess I should take off those tire sticker labels. |
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