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In between waiting for Julie’s help on finishing the wings, I played with the center section bulkhead. I tried to figure out how to best set the rivets holding on the side supports. I tried the squeezer first with the no-hole yoke. That didn’t work too well. It’s hard to line up the squeezer with the plunger on the manufactured head.
After that, I tried using the C-frame. With the Cleaveland tools, I can’t figure out any way to connect the rivet gun to the C-frame plunger. I ended up just hitting it with the dead blow hammer. I had the center section propped up with some wood so that it was perfectly level, but the rivets still bent over horribly.
I went back to the squeezer with the longeron yoke on it. That worked great for the first few rows of rivets. After that, it wouldn’t reach. I’ll have to figure out something else.
I also messed with the snap bushings to get them to fit. The side supports cut into the snap bushing hole. Seems like bad planning. I sanded off part of the front of the bushing. It fits great now, and wiring that runs through the bushing won’t be exposed to metal anywhere.
