To enclose the cockpit and add stiffness and strength to the tube chassis, I riveted on aluminum panels of 0.063" 7075-T6 with A256 and Monel 5/32" dia. Cherry and Huck rivets. These are very high strength fasteners that require a hydraulic rivet gun; pulling them with a hand tool is out of the question. Cleco skin fasteners were used as temporary clamps to fasten the panels to the chassis tubes while drilling holes and then pulling the rivets. The two- part zinc chromate epoxy primer was used on all the aluminum panels.
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