Dimpling side skins and ribs for aileron pushrood boot rings
You may be wondering why I drilled out these 13 rivets around the spar cutout.
It's because I forgot that the aileron boot rings get screwed to the side of the
fuselage in this location and there are some rivets which are normally AN470
rivets which I need to switch to AN426 rivets. That means that I need to remove
the F-704H side plates, countersink them, and dimple the skins and ribs where
these rings overlap.
After about two hours I had both sides done. You can see the three rivet holes
just forward of the aileron pushrod access hole have been dimpled as well as
two holes at the 5 o'clock position. My close quarters dimple die for the 1/8
rivets was necessary to dimple the ribs.