Riveted the Right and Left Side skins, and then riveted the Upper Right and Left Skins. Riveting took a bit of time, there are a lot of them. There was another step that said to ONLY rivet the holes in the upper left and right skins that are common to the left and right side skins. Again there was no mention of the rivets in the fuselage frame. I riveted the open holes in the fuselage frames on the lower skins and the side skins.
Prepped and primed the F-12106, forward skin rib after attaching the nutplates.
Then cleaned and deburred the top skin. Used the Cleaveland tool to break the edges. It worked extremely well. Made three passes with the tool on each edge, tightening it ever so slightly between passes. There seemed to be a lot more control of the tool doing it this way. Put a bit more of a break on the aft end of the skins per the plans.
Also found it was best to start to cleco the top skin from the aft end working forward. Ensure you catch all of the tabs on the fuselage frames.
When I clecoed to the F-1210C vertical stabilizer bracket, noticed something amiss. There were seven holes in the skin BUT only five holes in the bracket. I match drilled the skin to the bracket such that it matched Figure 2 (inset) on Page 10-10, removed the skin, deburred the holes, and cleaned the few metal flakes in the tailcone. I also radius'd the sharp tips of the F1210-C bracket as suggested on Figure 2 (inset). There is an obvious missing step here.
Attached the forward skin rib (for the vertical stab) and attached the J-stiffener (beveled end aft). Should finish riveting the tailcone on Tuesday. Also, Step 8 on page 10-10 tells you to rivet the 25 holes in the J-stiffener and makes no mention of leaving the forward 7" open (like all other forward holes). Think I will leave them open for now.
Time - 7 hours
