Help riveting tail top skin

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caapt

Well Known Member

• Feb 1, 2015

• #1

How do you rivet the middle section of the tail top skin. All I can think of is to hang it from a tree and stand inside to buck the rivets. Thoughts on how to hang it?

 

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Jake14

Well Known Member

• Feb 1, 2015

• #2

see the post 3 steps away from yours:

"alternate assembly procedure for RV-14 tailcone"

 

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patmiller

Active Member

• Feb 2, 2015

• #3

back rivet

caapt said:

How do you rivet the middle section of the tail top skin. All I can think of is to hang it from a tree and stand inside to buck the rivets. Thoughts on how to hang it?

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I put it on the floor (on some carpet)... put some blankets in the bottom and back riveted the whole thing. Requires a bucker on the outside.

pix at

https://n414pj.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/at-the-tail-end/

Pat

 

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caapt

Well Known Member

• Feb 2, 2015

• #4

I'm still missing something

How do you keep from bending metal crawling inside. I am not a petit guy.

 

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Ron B.

Well Known Member

• Feb 2, 2015

• #5

Caapt, that's exactly what I did. I used a hoist in my hangar and actually lowered it down over my bucker, tail in the air. Had it resting on benches so it would not move around . Worked great.
I had a post a while back but had no luck finding it.

 

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caapt

Well Known Member

• Feb 7, 2015

• #6

Problem Solved

Put an eye bolt in aft tiedown plate. Hung the tail from the ceiling of the hangar. Bucker stood inside. Worked well. Barely had enough floor to ceiling room.[IMG} www.flickr.com/photos/63734710@N08/16469808185/[/IMG]

 

Last edited: Feb 7, 2015