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Originally Posted by HBpilot
They would start to bend sideway early on in the process. One poster mentioned that it might have been too long of a rivet, which is actually the question I asked myself when I first put the rivet in place.
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So long as the rivet squeezer is square to the rivet while squeezing, they shouldn't clinch over. The fact that they are bending right away is even more of a clue that the rivets are too long. Three solutions:
1. Pick up a rivet gauge that shows how much rivet needs to protrude prior to squeezing. My Cleaveland gauge does this. Eventually your eye will tell you without the gauge.
2. Buy a $10.00 rivet cutter. That way, you can turn a 470-4-7 to a 470-4-6.5. There will be MANY places in the build where you will need to do this.
3. Try a shorter one and measure the the shop head when done. Sometimes you just need to experiment.
Hope this helps.