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Breakfast & Lunch Rear Spar Riveting

   Published Date: October 16, 2025  Leave a Comment on Breakfast & Lunch Rear Spar Riveting

The lovely thing about working from home is that I can buck (bang) some rivets out before breakfast. But be warned. Don’t buck them before coffee. Ask me how I know.

After getting the rear spar components primed yesterday, I was very excited to get some rivets set on the airplane.

Layout complete, plenty of 1/8″ clecos now!
Ugly drillouts. I am not happy with the green self-etching primer from Walmart. Just seems soft.
Here are all the forward-facings flush rivets set. After this, I think it was 54 solid rivets.
Great riveting, terrible primer. Those “Scratches are where my fingernailw was used to peel up the blue tape I used to protect the heads.
Whoa, that smiley rivets needs to be redone.
Here are the shop heads. 
Middle bracket
Rivet callouts for the rest of the vertical rear spar and rear spar reinforcement plate.
It’s starting to look like an airplane!
This is pretty!

1.0 hours here on the rear spar. There will be another post later tonight for more work. Stay tuned!

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