Dimpling/Countersinking Complete – First Rivets

Lots of work that is hard to show in this picture, but I got everything match drilled, deburred, and dimpled. I then got the tailcone back on. I ended up having an easier time doing it myself by putting the tailcone on a single saw horse but almost perfectly balanced but a little heavier towards the fuselage. That allowed me to work each side in much easier. I got everything reassembled like the picture from yesterday and I got one side of the riveting done along the F-1006 bulkhead. Tomorrow I hope to finish all of the riveting but we’ll see. I need to work on my boys’ car as it has had a transmission leak for quite a while and I’m done with the fluid stain on the driveway and I want to fix the leak first before I use the cleaner. I suspect the drive shaft seals from when I swapped the engines out and I might have messed them up when inserting the drive shafts.