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01-26-2012, 01:35 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Port Orange, fl
Posts: 7
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Wing Tip lens installation
How do we install the nut plate rivets? Will using a bucking bar will place fiberglass in danger of cracking? Is there an easier way to install lenses?
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01-26-2012, 02:16 PM
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Brisbane Australia
Posts: 568
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This is how I did mine. Scroll done to middle of the page.
http://cabaeroclub.org.au/yabb2/YaBB...=1233033360/90
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Brisbane, Australia
RV7A - Now Flying.
0-360,carb,catto 3 blade.
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01-26-2012, 02:24 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Port Orange, fl
Posts: 7
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Wing lens
Very nice but do you think 1 screw will hold it? I saw pictures on the forum where they used 18 nut plates per wing.
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01-26-2012, 03:24 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Round Rock, TX
Posts: 3,778
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I used three nut plates per lens... just use "Soft" rivets or small C/S pops as you're just holding a nut plate in place for a lens. 
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01-26-2012, 03:49 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Posts: 801
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I used the Click Bond system for my wingtip nut plates. My light lens nut plates are standard Spruce plate nuts, but I used the Click Bond adhesive to attach them to the wingtip. Actually any good epoxy will do...JB Weld, etc. Just be sure to scuff the backside of the nut plate before bonding.
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RV-8 N52VV
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01-26-2012, 07:23 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Big Sandy, WY
Posts: 2,567
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Smear of 5min epoxy & flox under the nutplate and nutplate pop rivets. Pull the rivets just enough to snug the nutplate. Let it harden then finish pulling the stems,
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01-27-2012, 04:38 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Asheville, NC
Posts: 2,692
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I bought a bag of PASK302 rivets (3/32" c'sunk flathead blind) from Hanson Rivet and Supply for jobs like this. Very handy.
www.hansonrivet.com
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Bill Pendergrass
ME/AE '82
RV-7A: Flying since April 15, 2012. 850 hrs
YIO-360-M1B, mags, CS, GRT EX and WS H1s & A/P, Navworx
Unpainted, polished....kinda'... Eyeballin' vinyl really hard.
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01-27-2012, 05:51 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: WA
Posts: 988
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Backing strip and bucked rivets...
I used a strip of .20 with a bit of epoxy as a backing strip and bucked rivets for two screws.
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RV7 powered by a lycoming thunderbolt IO-390
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Last edited by schristo@mac.com : 01-27-2012 at 10:34 AM.
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01-27-2012, 08:56 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Lee's Summit, MO
Posts: 99
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Two screws
per lens, no metal backing strip. After more than 4 years and 1100 hours, no problems.
Bill
RV-7 N151WP
Lee's Summit, MO
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01-27-2012, 08:57 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Trenton, SC
Posts: 117
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wing tip lens installation
On last three airplanes I have used just two nutplates, one top and one bottom like Jamies. Just make sure you get a good fit between the mounting flange and lens. No extra reinforcing of fiberglass necessary for riviting the nutplates. I have noticed most of the ones that have all the screws in them are the ones that did not lay flush to begin with. If I were to do another one, I would round off the corners of the lens and the flange.... Just a little more of that detail work. 
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