3/6 NOV 14: Page 16-3 step 3: 2 hours

Finished riveting the left wing skin – at least all the parts that I can rivet without help.  Back riveting took a long time – think I’ll get a partner to shoot the right skin.  Plus to back rivet I had to use a double offset back rivet set.  I really don’t like the shop heads that set produces.  VERY hard to hit the shop head with even pressure with the double offset, and you have to turn the pressure up very high.  Just really difficult to get nice shopheads.

8 NOV 14: Page 17-3 steps 9-14: 6.5 hours

Dimpled the L LE skin:

 Dimpled the screw holes in the splice strip for a #8 screw:

 Riveted the nutplates onto the W-1019-L splice strip:

Began to rivet the left LE assembly.  It’s so nice to be bucking rivets again instead of back riveting.  The shop heads are so much nicer and it is nice to be using much lower pressure at the gun.  Honestly, the factory heads look just as nice as back riveting.  Knock on wood, my leading edges will look very nice!