Author: "jaybrinkmeyer" <jaybrinkmeyer@...> Time: Mon Jan 5, 2004 2:49 pm PST Link
How are folks squeezing those big rivets on the slanted inboard ribs
that attach to the front spar? There's not a whole lot of room to
get a squeezer past the hinge attachments, so I was thinking about
using a gun/bucking bar.
Thanks,
Jay
Author: "Bob Condrey" <bob.condrey@...> Time: Mon Jan 5, 2004 4:48 pm PST Link
Interesting that you should ask - I just did that part a few days
ago... I tried using my pneumatic but in six tries I only wound up
with two acceptable rivets. It was worth a try but in hindsight I
should have just bucked them to begin with.
Bob
--- In RV10@yahoogroups.com, "jaybrinkmeyer" <jaybrinkmeyer@y...>
wrote:
> How are folks squeezing those big rivets on the slanted inboard
ribs
> that attach to the front spar? There's not a whole lot of room to
> get a squeezer past the hinge attachments, so I was thinking about
> using a gun/bucking bar.
>
> Thanks,
> Jay
Author: "rv7pete" <RV10Pete@...> Time: Tue Jan 6, 2004 3:30 am PST Link
--- In RV10@yahoogroups.com, "jaybrinkmeyer" <jaybrinkmeyer@y...>
wrote:
> How are folks squeezing those big rivets on the slanted inboard
ribs
> that attach to the front spar? There's not a whole lot of room to
> get a squeezer past the hinge attachments, so I was thinking about
> using a gun/bucking bar.
>
> Thanks,
> Jay
The two inboard ribs get attached to the web before it goes in....but
then yes, you have to buck those babies! Be careful. I buggered
mine up and had to re-order and re-install! Not expensive...but oh
what a pain!!
Take extra time on this part. The number 5 rivets want to mash over
since the bucking bar is at such a tough angle!
Pete