Today we tackled the bottom skins and the baggage compartment assembly connection. Made it through with only a few rivets that we needed to drill out and ended up putting in two additional blind rivets where the seat belt attach bars are and the bucking bar was very difficult to get in.

After that I began working on the aft ribs assemblies that contain most of the seat belt attachments. I found that the rivet used in the seatbelt attachment was difficult to pass through the small slit in the bulkhead so I ended up squeezing it a little more than it was. Still legal, but slightly overdriven. I could have also drilled it out and replaced it but since the rivet was still legal I left it.

Another issue I found was the plans called for some difficult AN470-4-5's when assembling the step step assemblies to the power coated attachment. Some builders alter the build order here but I found that I was able to squeeze the em all just fine (see picture). On the opposite side I used 2 cherry rivets and bucked the middle one (was not able to buck the top and bottom fwd rivets. So I used Cherry Rivets per the plans instructions.

I ended the day where the plans call for riveting the assemblies to the main assembly (which will be followed by the skins next. Tomorrow we will (hopefully) finish this section.