Today I riveted the two rivets I missed last time, securing the seatbelt lugs to the F-01406C bulkhead. I used an offset rivet set, and found I needed to tape both my tungsten bucking bars together to have enough mass to set the rivets without using a scary amount of air pressure on the gun. I had the gun set to 35 PSI, and that worked great. The rotisserie made this so easy, I quickly rotated the fuselage to either side before setting the rivets. It made for easy access, and both rivets were set with no problems.

Then I moved onto the next step, riveting the bulkhead to the top skin. I was able to reach every rivet with the hand squeezer, and set them all quickly and easily.


By now it’s too late in the evening to use the rivet gun, so the next round of riveting will wait until tomorrow.