Echo Tango
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Long story short, a botched rivet removal led to a "size up" rivet solution which led to a fairly idiotic mistake of using the wrong dimple die on my HS front spar and the sheet tore/cracked.
My question is this: since my HS skin is already final-drilled and dimpled, how do i match drill my new spar? I feel like I might enlarge quite a number of holes trying to match-drill a dimpled sheet to an un-dimpled spar. I don't think my dimple dies will fit the undersized "virgin" holes provided by Vans, so that's probably out of the question as well.
Should I just use my #40 drill on the spar, dimple it and hope for the best? I'm fairly certain this will work, as i've never really had any holes that were very "off" coming from vans... everything seemed to match up near perfectly.![Confused :confused: :confused:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Oh, it's an RV-7
My question is this: since my HS skin is already final-drilled and dimpled, how do i match drill my new spar? I feel like I might enlarge quite a number of holes trying to match-drill a dimpled sheet to an un-dimpled spar. I don't think my dimple dies will fit the undersized "virgin" holes provided by Vans, so that's probably out of the question as well.
Should I just use my #40 drill on the spar, dimple it and hope for the best? I'm fairly certain this will work, as i've never really had any holes that were very "off" coming from vans... everything seemed to match up near perfectly.
Oh, it's an RV-7
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