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33 - Baggage Area - final assembly and riveting

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Continuing on with riveting the baggage area together, I first riveted nutplates onto the Upper Baggage Door Seal Channel. I used blind rivets for one of the attach holes on each nutplate due to those being impossible to reach with a bucking bar. I was able to use the pneumatic squeezer on the other attach holes. Nutplates riveted to the door seal channel Blind rivets used where it is impossible to reach with a standard bucking bar Next it was time to rivet both baggage floors in place. Feeling confident that the conduit runs and under floor electrical runs were adequate for my needs, I clecoed both the baggage floors and rear seat floors into place, along with the bottom rear seat back hinge, and then began pulling CS4-4 rivets Ready to final rivet the baggage floors into place Pulling blind rivets was easy (left baggage floor). I just had to make sure that the rivet puller was tight against and inline with the head of the rivet prior to starting the pull  After completing the bli...