I've been getting elevators ready for riveting today. On the left side I drilled the skeleton and skin but after looking at the trim tab spar for a bit it occurs to me that I can't think of a way to rivet the part of it that is inside the body of the elevator. There's really no room to get a bucking bar in there.
Guess I could use pop rivets, but I'm not exactly excited about that idea. It would probably work from a structural approach but everything else is countersunk and pop rivets would be hanging out in the breeze. At the very least that doesn't look very good.
Eric, I used a 4" no-hole yoke to reach the first 3 rivets on the top side, but could only reach the first two on the bottom (rivet head on top interferred). Had to use 3 pop rivets total--they will look fine after filler and paint.
The plans specifically call for CS4-4 rivets there. No rivets protruding and you can always put a bit of filler in the holes.
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Riveting the trim tab spar in elevator body
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