When I first started, I was usually inclined to drill out rivets that didn't look right. This has been a hard impulse to ignore, even now. However both my inspector, and an email from Vans, both stressed that usually drilling-out a rivet is not the thing to do, because the result is usually worse than the orignal rivet. Still... it is a hard habit to shake.
The approach I'm shifting towards now (right wing skeleton) is when I set a rivet poorly, to add an extra rivet nearby (often a blind rivet), if there's room. I think the allowed inter-rivet spacing is pretty tight, so there almost always is enough room. Adds a bit to weight, I guess.
Just wanted to survey the community on this, what are most people's biases out there... do you typically drill-out your bad rivets (sometimes more than once), or do you take the approach of adding extra rivets when you are in doubt about some of the ones you've set?
The approach I'm shifting towards now (right wing skeleton) is when I set a rivet poorly, to add an extra rivet nearby (often a blind rivet), if there's room. I think the allowed inter-rivet spacing is pretty tight, so there almost always is enough room. Adds a bit to weight, I guess.
Just wanted to survey the community on this, what are most people's biases out there... do you typically drill-out your bad rivets (sometimes more than once), or do you take the approach of adding extra rivets when you are in doubt about some of the ones you've set?
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