Sanding Rivets

[N674P]

Originally Posted by N674P

(commonly called dykes)

oops! No offense intended by my misspelling...
Still, common dikes do not cut square - they leave that sharp double bevelled wedge on the end of the rivet or zip-tie. Flush cuts cut flush!

[lrfrey]

Roee, mine is a 7a (slow build) started in March '02. I'm hoping to fly in September, (yea right), but actually have a chance of making it. Hope you make it to OSH this year, I'd love to meet you. (sorry for the off topic post).

Larry

[captainron]

Originally Posted by Naruto

LOL

My dikes are manly too.

Aren't they all?

[jcoloccia]

I have a nice rivet cutter. I used it a few time but I find it's easiest to use lineman pliers (not diagonal cutters). Also, they don't seem to work well on flush rivets....at least I don't have any luck with them. So bottom line, for me, is that rivet cutters ended up being one of those "gotta have" tools that I never use. Lineman pliers rock. You may also hear them called "Kleins" for the same reason copies are called "Xeroxes".

You may end up with a funny looking, squashed/sharp end when you're done cutting it. As far as I can tell, this has no effect whatsoever on the quality of the set rivet....once it's squashed, you can't tell.

my $.02

[roee]

Originally Posted by lrfrey

Roee, mine is a 7a (slow build) started in March '02. I'm hoping to fly in September, (yea right), but actually have a chance of making it. Hope you make it to OSH this year, I'd love to meet you. (sorry for the off topic post).

Larry

Yeah, I'll be at OSH this year. It would be great to meet in person.

My email: roee at kalinskyconsulting dot com

-Roee

[brianwallis]

A rivit cutter is worth it's weight in gold.. ps.. in the Army.. we did not say dykes... we said "pliers with comfortable shoes" as a joke... cause the women we had in our unit defininately had some interesting habits....
Best
Brian

[plehrke]

Originally Posted by roee

P.S. yep, I think my claim to fame is "slowest quick build ever"

I started my RV-6A quickbuild on Dec 23 1997. First flight Oct 20 2006. (of coarse that was when quickbuilts where more like today's long builds). They say engineers are the slowest to build and I prove that since I worked continuously through the 9 years.

[roee]

Originally Posted by plehrke

I started my RV-6A quickbuild on Dec 23 1997. First flight Oct 20 2006. (of coarse that was when quickbuilts where more like today's long builds). They say engineers are the slowest to build and I prove that since I worked continuously through the 9 years.

LOL! Yeah, I'm an engineer too. [surprise, surprise, right?] And of course I am guilty of making lots of little design improvements to the kit, which definitely adds time. I started my project in Jan 2004, and right now my best guess for first flight would be 2009. So I guess you're still the record holder, and I hope to keep it that way

[DaX]

Originally Posted by jcoloccia

You may end up with a funny looking, squashed/sharp end when you're done cutting it. As far as I can tell, this has no effect whatsoever on the quality of the set rivet....once it's squashed, you can't tell.

my $.02

I experimented with cutting rivets with my klines last night and squeezed them - they came out great! Ugly after cutting, beautiful after squeezing. I won't be buying any rivet cutters.

BTW, engineer here too.