Tail Cone Riveting

 Lots of riveting action this last Saturday.

Dan came over and we were able to get quite a few rivets set.

If you look hard through the elevator push rod hole, you can see me inside the tail cone tunnel.  I was on the bucking bar while Dan used the pneumatic.

The tunnel is very tight for this old man!

Here Dan is setting rivets in the seam for the two side skins.

I left the pieces of wood attached to the tail cone bulkheads in place while we set the rivets.  I will remove them when we are done riveting.  It made a nice handhold to pull myself along.

Dan shooting another rivet while I held the bucking bar inside.

Here I am climbing out after a couple of hundred rivets.  Hundreds to go!

I'm not looking forward to climbing back in.

Later,
BWW