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Riveted on the W-907E doubler plate to the spar

Same story here. The plans definitely say to not rivet the countersunk holes now, but nothing about the 5 vertical holes next to them. I had to go another plan page to see that those 5 holes are going to be riveted later to bracket. So I left those alone. The other thing that was throwing me off was the size of the rivets. The instructions called for a number 5 rivet which seemed way to long for the hole. Just for grins, I stuck a number 4 rivet in the hole as saw that it was definitely too short to do the job. So I used the number 5 rivets. It was a little tough to make sure that these rivets didn't bend over during the squeeze.

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