I'm at the stage now to rivet the elevator spar to the upper side of the elevator skin. The plans just say to rivet it. It's a tricky area, because the flanges of the spar point to the inside, and so there's not much room there for bucking.
The Ordnorff video says the best way is to clamp the bottom side of the skin to the table, and pull the skin open (I've got mine held open with long strips of duct-tape pulling the top half of the skin up and open). It looks like it's going to be a two-person job (one to buck, one to rivet) any way I slice it. This is the first time I've encountered a spot I can't rivet by myself.
Did anyone here figure out a trick, or alternative way to rivet this? My instinct was to back-rivet it just as I did with the stiffeners, but I think i'd need some kind of offset back-rivet set, since the spar flange would get in the way of a straight back-rivet set.
The Ordnorff video says the best way is to clamp the bottom side of the skin to the table, and pull the skin open (I've got mine held open with long strips of duct-tape pulling the top half of the skin up and open). It looks like it's going to be a two-person job (one to buck, one to rivet) any way I slice it. This is the first time I've encountered a spot I can't rivet by myself.
Did anyone here figure out a trick, or alternative way to rivet this? My instinct was to back-rivet it just as I did with the stiffeners, but I think i'd need some kind of offset back-rivet set, since the spar flange would get in the way of a straight back-rivet set.