Mary came down and helped me finish riveting on the aft top skin. She held the back rivet bar on the manufactured heads of the rivets and I leaned way into the fuselage to hit the rivet tails with the back rivet set in my rivet gun. Do you think I could possibly have used the word "rivet" enough in the preceding sentence?
The skin rivets all turned out very nice. I had to use a pop rivet in this one hole at the center of the aft edge where the underlying F-707B angle clip leaves no room under the skin for a rivet set or bucking bar. I suppose if I'd noticed this I'd have waited to install the F-787 stiffener until after the skin was on, but oh well.
After the skin was riveted on and the F-6111 reinforcement ribs were riveted to the skin, I sprayed paint over the exposed rivet heads and the places where I'd knocked paint off while riveting. I'm happy that I picked an interior paint that comes in a can – it makes it trivial to come back and touch up spots when necessary.
