[Michael Burbidge]

I'm trying to figure out how to drive a rivet on the vertical stabilizer. It is the front most flush rivet on the very tip of the stabilizer, where the stabilizer nose is very narrow. I can't get a bucking bar or a squeezer in to get that rivet. How did you do that?

 

[asav8tor]

If you have one of those ground plates for back riveting or a cast iron table saw:

1. put rivet on plate
2. put part over rivet
3. Grind a small 3/8' by 3/8" about a foot long piece of steel stock to fit between the shank to be driven and the small space.
4. put a spacer block of metal at the other end of the stock so it is level.
5. hit the stock with a hammer short of the part and it will drive the rivet


OR

use a pull rivet

 

[RV10Rob]

MK-319-BS

I realized I was probably doing more harm than good trying to buck the forwardmost leading edge rivets.

 

[rv12iS-builder]

MK-319-BS

I realized I was probably doing more harm than good trying to buck the forwardmost leading edge rivets.

Me too! I also used MK-319-BS rivets.

 

[airguy]

This is one of those points where the 4" no-hole yoke on a squeezer is definitely worth the price you pay for it. Mine came out looking beautiful!

 

[Low & Slow]

No hole, thin nose

I used a 2.5 in. no hole, thin nose yoke in the pneumatic squeezer. I don't recall there being a real problem setting those 2 rivets, although my log says that it wasn't as easy as the others.

http://www.mykitlog.com/users/display_log.php?user=jjenn&project=310&category=0&log=28626&row=7

 

[pmccoy]

Try Shooting on a Crow Bar

If you have one of those ground plates for back riveting or a cast iron table saw:

1. put rivet on plate
2. put part over rivet
3. Grind a small 3/8' by 3/8" about a foot long piece of steel stock to fit between the shank to be driven and the small space.
4. put a spacer block of metal at the other end of the stock so it is level.
5. hit the stock with a hammer short of the part and it will drive the rivet

I did this same thing, except for step #3, I just used a crow bar. Put the part on your back rivet plate, put the rivet in, put the crow bar on the back of the rivet, then shoot the crow bar just outside of the material. I have had very good results with this method. Hope it works for you.

 

[Norman CYYJ]

I have used this method of riveting hard to get places on all the planes that I have built and it works great. No heavy thinking or cussing.

If you have one of those ground plates for back riveting or a cast iron table saw:

1. put rivet on plate
2. put part over rivet
3. Grind a small 3/8' by 3/8" about a foot long piece of steel stock to fit between the shank to be driven and the small space.
4. put a spacer block of metal at the other end of the stock so it is level.
5. hit the stock with a hammer short of the part and it will drive the rivet


OR

use a pull rivet