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Put in the 2 temporary rivets to hold the ribs in place

Hmm... The instructions say to put in two rivets, one "at the forward end and one near the center of each rib". The instructions also say to look at picture in the manual, but I couldn't make out where the front rivet was in the picture. So simple logic would dictate that you wouldn't put the forward most rivet into the spar/rib intersection, otherwise you wouldn't be able to final drill the front curved skin through the top skin and into the spar. So I put my forward rivet in the second rib hole from the front. Then I removed all of the clecoes so the this back skin can lay flat on the table when it is flipped over.

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