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Clecoed the skin together after the roll

The top (small end) was easy to cleco together. The middle section made me holler a few explicatives, but I managed to cleco it together. The bottom.... well, forced me to grab my closest neighbor and give him a quick lesson on how to put in a cleco. I started at the top of the bottom section, pushing the edges together as my neighbor put in the clecos. We worked our way down until it was all clecoed. Then it was a matter of starting at the bottom, drilling out the holes, putting in pop-rivets and working my way to the top. The instructions say to make sure the pop-rivet is all the way in the hole before setting it. Part 2 of this should have said to also make sure that the pop-rivet is sitting flat on the skin all the around the rivet head. The pop-rivet sets itself in whatever position you put it in.

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