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Fuselage March 2005 Updates March 04, 2005 Construction of Firewall I am ready to get back after it now. I had dimpled all the holes I could reach with the DRDT-2. So I was able to borrow a longeron yoke from Phil until mine comes to get the edge holes completed. Next I clecoed all the primed gussets and braces back in place and ready to start riveting. Then Harley Dave stopped by and made me drink a beer. He does that all the time you know. I was going to start fresh in the morning but just could not help but do a few rivets along the bottom edge with the squeezer. I got those done and then decieded to do a couple using the backrivet plate. That worked great until the plate slipped and I had to stop and drill out one that didn't seat flush. That was it. So I will stop and restart fresh tomorrow. This website was built to document my work in compliance with the FAA requirements needed to certify my aircraft. My experiences and comments are by no means to be considered as instructions on how to build any aircraft.