Just a couple hours today to finish a few small tasks before tackling the top side skin on the right side in the next day or two.

Learning from the first go around a few days ago, everything (well almost) everything went a lot smoother and quicker today. First task was to finish riveting the HS-707 nose rib on the opposite side. Next was to blind rivet the HS-707, HS-702 (spar) and HS-708 rib together. Again this time went much quicker and smoother as I had learned what not to do from the other day. All three blind rivets set this time with no issues.

Final bit today was to cleco the skin to the right side of the frame and finally rivet the two rivets of HS-706 to the spar. I was cruising along and driving this first 470 4-4 rivet just fine when the damn rivet gun slipped out of my grip and bounced off the outside of the rib. Dammit!!!! This creased the rivet head and even dented the rib very slightly. I finished the other rivet and grabbed the rivet removal kit. So I spent about 30 minutes taking out this -4 rivet and it put up a good fight. Once it was out the hole was ever so slightly enlarged so I just opened it to a #21 sized hole and set a 470 5-4 sized rivet in it's place.

The right side top skin is ready to be riveted on. This will be the last task before the tech inspection hopefully this week.