Time to start riveting the assembly together. I made my own back riveting slab of steel by stoning a 4" by 15" by 3/8" of cold rolled steel.
I did this in between all the other work I was doing on the flap.
Next, I took the rivets and placed them into the lower skin flap dimples and held them in place with riveting tape. I flipped the flap skin over with the taped rivets pointing up.
I aligned the back riveting plate so it was directly under the rivets and placed the flap skin stiffener into place.
Then I set the rivets with the pneumatic riveting gun. This was very easy to do. The other riveting I did was really tough!
(Continued in next post.)
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