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baggage floors to bulkhead rivets

Swiss14A

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Hi guys

Any advice on how to rivet the baggage floors to the bulkhead, especially the rivets close to the side skins? For the rivet gun I only have a straight rivet set for AN470AD3-X rivets and none with displacement (and apparently none of my builder friends has another one). The ones closer to the center may be squeezed I think...

thanks
Fabian

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Bulkhead rivets

Hi, I just finished this step last week, used 3? straight set with 3x rivet gun, worked great. Dennis
 
Set for bulkhead rivets

I used the offset rivet set in my 2x gun. They were fairly easy to set with the fuselage rotated about 45 deg.

Jim
 
I used only tungsten bucking bars for all riveting in my RV14. I think they are indispensable when the rivets are not very accessible.
 
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