Baggage/Rear Seat Floors

Productive day today! Primed all of the parts needed to complete the first half of section 33 over lunch and then got to work laying insulation and riveting the floors into place! Similar to the forward floors, I used a layer of 1/8" Fiberfrax insulation, and topped it with Ultratouch under the rear seats only. Under the baggage area, I used aluminum tape to secure the relatively thin and light Fiberfrax.

Insulation laid up, ready to install floors!

I started riveting the floors on and realized my pneumatic rivet gun wasn't working right. It started taking two, and then three squeezes to actually set the rivet, which got old quick. I thought maybe the gun was starting to wear out or something, but it turned out to be part of the internal mechanism had started to unscrew from itself and was limiting its range of motion. We had disassembled the gun months ago to clean all the proseal out of it, and I think we must not have tightened everything back up fully. Whew! That was an easy fix, I was hoping I wasn't going to have to end up buying another gun or something. Anyway, after a night of riveting here's what we ended up with:

L baggage floor and baggage door opening, from inside

Baggage door opening, looking inside toward floors

All sealed up!

Baggage floors

We're now through Section 33-7 Step 5... yay! The second half of this section will now build on this and install a cover panel on the R side of the baggage area, and match-drill and install nutplates to hold the Baggage Bulkhead Corrugation panels.

The end of Section 33 is in sight!!!