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11-25-2012, 07:30 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Gardnerville Nv.
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Drilling out rivets? My experience came at the rudder redo step of the project! O, that was not part of the build process?
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11-25-2012, 07:47 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Livermore, CA
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I am a "repeat offender". More than once I put two clecos in the aluminum but had one miss one hole in the nutplate. Pull the 'bad' cleco, rivet, pull the good cleco.....what was that noise? How can the nutplate have fallen out?
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11-25-2012, 08:01 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Garden City, Tx
Posts: 5,813
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BobTurner
I am a "repeat offender". More than once I put two clecos in the aluminum but had one miss one hole in the nutplate. Pull the 'bad' cleco, rivet, pull the good cleco.....what was that noise? How can the nutplate have fallen out?
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Hahaha! I've never done that!
Not that I'm going to admit, anyway... 
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Greg Niehues - SEL, IFR, Repairman Cert.
Garden City, TX VAF 2022 dues paid 
N16GN flying 1,000 hrs and counting on 91E10; IO360, SDS, WWRV200, Dynon HDX, IFD440, G5
Built an off-plan RV9A with too much fuel and too much HP. Should drop dead any minute now.
Pending Repeat Offender - 10 kit is on order. TDI? Turbine? Stay tuned!
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11-25-2012, 08:44 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Meridian ID, Aspen CO, Okemos MI
Posts: 3,009
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Bill, the one thing that is important to remember is - never tell anyone that doesn't know if you made a mistake that you made a mistake. Lets just say I am pretty good at drilling out rivets. I like the idea that they were "test" rivets. I will remember that one!
Im changing a fuselage from a tail wheel to nose wheel so I feel like all I am doing is fixing! I just finished putting the steps in - which involved drilling out the baggage floor covers and side panels. The main gear were not that much fun either, but they are in.
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Williamston MI
O-320 D2A
Flying N376E
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11-26-2012, 01:48 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Hillsboro, Oregon
Posts: 104
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I was very pleased with the rivets I set (backriveted) in one of my aileron skins for the stiffeners. Beautiful! And it went fast too. Then I saw the pile of stiffeners off to the side. And that is when I realized my aileron skin had beautiful rivets but no stiffeners.
Welcome to the club. I was feeling kinda lonely. ;-)
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