Today was productive, but ended in frustration. I continued work on the longeron which involved the side skin. The longeron was put in place and the side skin clecoed. I then match drilled the longeron. The parts were disassembled and deburred. The side skin was prepared for the wing by opening as per plans. I then primed the longeron, doublers, and side skin as per plans. All this took about 4 and half hours.
This evening with the kids home I thought I could get some good help and complete the side skins this evening. Well, that didn't happen and ended in frustration. T and B helped me for a bit. We started by attaching the nutplates to the side skin as per plans. These use CCR-264SS-3-2 rivets which the shanks seem to get caught in my hand riveter. Since we have several to put in I thought I would change the tip on the rivet gun and use it to save on time. BAD MISTAKE. I placed the first one and the rivet shank got caught in the rivet gun. It seemed to dislodge easy, so I did a second, and then a third. By the time I got to the third the rivet gun stopped working. This was disappointing in that we have a lot of rivets to place on the side skin and this would prevent us from easily doing them. I finished the nutplate rivets with the hand squeezer and B and T clecoed the right skin to the fuselage.
T and I then spent 2 and half hours on disassembling the rivet gun to clear the jam. It took us a bit to find out what was going on. There ended up being 2 shanks got in the gun. We were finally after 2 hours able to get access to them and remove them. We then put the gun back together, but then the gun would not move. The piston seemed to be catching. After messing with it for a bit it was decided that I would order the parts to replace the rod seal (rod seal kit) along with the lubricant, hydrolic fluid, and jaw lubricant as per rivet gun manual. As soon as I get them in then I will hopefully be able to resurrect the gun. I may have to recharge the hydrolic fluid, I am not sure. This is a little set back, but there are always other things we can do in the mean time. I will most likely move on to another section until the parts arrive and we get the gun working again.
Time: 7 hrs.
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| Longerons in place |
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| Opening side skin for wing |
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| Attaching Gusset |
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| Side skin in place |
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| Longeron, doubler and side skin priming. |
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