[Future RV 9 Flyer]

Help,I used Cleveland's substructure dies for my ribs for the tanks and the fuel tank dies for the tank skins.I'm ready to start sealing the tanks so I started to clecoe the ribs into place but the clecoes barely hold. Used a c-frame for the skins and a vise grip pliers to put the dimples in the ribs.the holes in the ribs seem slightly large.Anybody else have this problem?

 

[Zuldarin]

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Help,I used Cleveland's substructure dies for my ribs for the tanks and the fuel tank dies for the tank skins.I'm ready to start sealing the tanks so I started to clecoe the ribs into place but the clecoes barely hold. Used a c-frame for the skins and a vise grip pliers to put the dimples in the ribs.the holes in the ribs seem slightly large.Anybody else have this problem?

I ran into this problem as well but it was because the cleco's I used to hold the skin to the ribs had a lot of stress on them from being forced down to match the curvature of the skin. I don't know if you have any yet but I found that using cleco's that had been used to seal tanks previously (and had some residual proseal on the tip) worked well enough to finish the tank. I did have to use oops rivets in a few locations because the holes had enlarged a little too much.

Hope that helps.

Darin