Fuselage bottom skin mounted vertically to assist with riveting the bottom skin. Just had to wait for assistant riveter to come off night shifts. There are a couple of rivets which are virtually obscured by the ribs. Judicious use of the small titanium bucking bar just about set these. Blue tape is the involved no rivet areas.
I used a couple of baggage bay ribs to stop the skin flopping.
Power socket panel riveted on.
The seat rib angles are attached with blind rivets. It took a little bit of inventive thought to be able to reach them. Even then, the lightening holes were only just big enough for the furthest rivet.
I needed to final drill the seat angle to seat rib holes before blind riveting. I couldn’t see how to get a drill in until I realised the angles all line up. Bit of Boelube and job done.
I couldn’t figure how to rivet the side frame assemblies to this bracket. There is one blind rivet and two 470 4-4s. I had to reverse them to use the squeezer which was a safer option than hitting them.
To tip! The instructions have you rivet the step weld assemblies on before the step attach doublers. DON’T! When you see the next image you will see why. The weld assemblies are attached with Cherrymax blind rivets which are easy to set. The 470s on the doubler aren’t hen the weld assembly is in the way.
Step attach assemblies complete and ready to be riveted to the bulkhead and skin. One page away from another chapter being complete.
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