Nov 20, 2020
Fuel Tanks
- (5.0 hours)
Category: Wings
Cleaned and taped all of the fuel tank skins for adhesive application for the attach bracket and aft inboard rib. Spread the adhesive and clecoed the right side attach bracket in place then riveted the attach bracket onto the fuel tank skin. Sounds easy enough and it was. However, the inboard aft inboard rib is another story. Even after a couple of fit checks without adhesive, with adhesive it was another story. Difficult to fit, but got it done. The 6 rivets attaching the ribs and attach bracket together were enough to make you never want to do it again. Adhesive everywhere, difficult to align and doing the riveting was bear! After an hour of trying to squeeze, manual and pneumatic, I eventually ended up using an offset rivet attachment to the rivet gun. One rivet along side the skin would not play nice and took forever to install. Eventually I flipped it180 degrees and then it worked fine. Am I the only one who's been up to their elbows in pro seal? It took bending in many different ways, a couple of hours, but it's now installed. I just need to seal all the rivet heads and flanges (most of which you can't see) and the right tank will be ready for the fuel level sender, the Z brackets and baffle installation.