I am learning about riveting the hard way I am afraid. I have made more than a few ham handed riveting errors that show up as dents and bruises, but I have corrected almost all of them. The painter is going to have to do the rest I suppose.
One of them does concern me, so I am posting this photo for comment, as much as it pains me to display it!
This is one of the attach angles on the H/S of my 9A. I screwed up the first angle and made a new one, but had to enlarge five of the nine rivets because I expanded the holes too much when removing them. (I now use a removal tool that prevents this.) I replaced those five AN470-4s with AN470-5s and mistakenly grabbed a 3/16 rivet set (thinking it was a 5/32) and hammered away. Note the beautiful full smiles. (Why does this happen to me so often? BECAUSE I AM AN IDIOT!!!!)
I have shown this to "experts" and the opinions range from "build on" to "replace the H/S", since further rivet replacement will surely create even more damage. I want to believe as one expert said, "It is not anything particularly terrible and it is unlikely that they will cause trouble."
Here it is. I am hiding behind the computer screen.
One of them does concern me, so I am posting this photo for comment, as much as it pains me to display it!
This is one of the attach angles on the H/S of my 9A. I screwed up the first angle and made a new one, but had to enlarge five of the nine rivets because I expanded the holes too much when removing them. (I now use a removal tool that prevents this.) I replaced those five AN470-4s with AN470-5s and mistakenly grabbed a 3/16 rivet set (thinking it was a 5/32) and hammered away. Note the beautiful full smiles. (Why does this happen to me so often? BECAUSE I AM AN IDIOT!!!!)
I have shown this to "experts" and the opinions range from "build on" to "replace the H/S", since further rivet replacement will surely create even more damage. I want to believe as one expert said, "It is not anything particularly terrible and it is unlikely that they will cause trouble."
Here it is. I am hiding behind the computer screen.