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Ahrrr, my first mistake! Rudder bottom aft rivet

Av8rRob

Well Known Member
Ok fellas, I was going along good about to rivet the trailing edge of the rudder when I noticed a rivet missing on one side. It was the aft most bottom rivet of the bottom rib. This thing has crazy tight clearance. Anyways I debate using a blind rivet and then foolishly move onto trying to squeeze it using a metal spacer off the opposite side rivet with a wedge etc.Llong story short, I started to set the rivet then realized I was bending the skin/rib on the opposite side.
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At this point I'm thing about drilling them both out, using the hand seamers the smooth out the bump then using blind rivets on both sides. Any other ideas?

Thanks
 
rudder

I think you will have to drill down some of the trailing edge to get to the rivets. Your gonna have to be able to get a hand squeeze in there to straighten the skin. I bet if you drill down about 4 inches of the lower part of the trailing edge you could spread it open enough to straighten the skin and shoot the rivets.
 
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