Roarks
Active Member
Okay, I have a few aircraft technician handbooks, read about dimples... and am even more confused.
I have read about coin dimples, modified radius dimples, and hot dimples. As far as I can tell what RV building folks are doing is some type of modified radius dimple...
So I bought a die set, bought a squeezer, and tried it out... I don't think I'm doing it right. So tell me where I went wrong.
1/8" c-sink rivet to be used.
-Material is clecoed together.
-Drill hole for dimple pilot
-lightly deburr hole
-put dimple die set in my Tatco squeezer... it didn't fit...
-okay male die got shorter on the stem below the spring till it fit in the squeezer
-squeeze the dimple onto the clecoed, deburred hole.
-put rivet in
-drive rivet.
Is that right or... was I supposed to dimple each sheet individually? ?? My books say that the dimples on modified radius won't nest together properly.
So what am I missing?
Thanks,
-Super newbie that wants his first tool box practice kit to be right.
I have read about coin dimples, modified radius dimples, and hot dimples. As far as I can tell what RV building folks are doing is some type of modified radius dimple...
So I bought a die set, bought a squeezer, and tried it out... I don't think I'm doing it right. So tell me where I went wrong.
1/8" c-sink rivet to be used.
-Material is clecoed together.
-Drill hole for dimple pilot
-lightly deburr hole
-put dimple die set in my Tatco squeezer... it didn't fit...
-okay male die got shorter on the stem below the spring till it fit in the squeezer
-squeeze the dimple onto the clecoed, deburred hole.
-put rivet in
-drive rivet.
Is that right or... was I supposed to dimple each sheet individually? ?? My books say that the dimples on modified radius won't nest together properly.
So what am I missing?
Thanks,
-Super newbie that wants his first tool box practice kit to be right.