Here we go (I will try and get names for all the parts soon). Here is a great picture of Baron back riveting. Back riveting is the cat's meow, it just makes life so darned easy!

You put the rivets in and hold them with tape, flip over the part onto a solid piece of metal (this acts like the bucking bar) and stack all the pieces on top and rivet away. The following pictures should show it better than I can explain. The new tool we got (shown HERE) makes all the difference you NEED to get one.

Here are the rivets taped in, you can get Rivet tape but we found that blue painter's tape works fine.

Here are the rivets sticking up with the rib on top.

Here are some finished and some waiting.

Here is the back riveting tool I mentioned. It is spring loaded to hold all the pieces together tightly.

One side down, one to go.

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