Davepar
Well Known Member
I was blindly drilling out the holes in the tip-up canopy skin and made a minor screw-up. One of the #40 holes came out right next to an existing 1/8" splice plate rivet.
This hole:
came out here:
My choices seem to be:
1. Forge ahead and use a 3/32" rivet there next to the 1/8" rivet.
2. Fill the #40 hole with epoxy and leave the 1/8" rivet in place.
3. Remove the rivet, drill out the hole to #10 and replace with an AN509-10 flat head screw.
I'm leaning toward option 3 at the moment. The only drawback is that there's not quite enough edge distance on the canopy frame underneath the splice plate for a #10 screw. The material is plenty thick enough to countersink for the #10 screw head.
Dave
This hole:
![IMG_4410.jpg](/community/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dualrudder.com%2Falbums%2Frv7%2Fimages%2FIMG_4410.jpg&hash=f9b4702986c4e52824dbdbed94a4c89e)
came out here:
![IMG_4411.jpg](/community/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dualrudder.com%2Falbums%2Frv7%2Fimages%2FIMG_4411.jpg&hash=c00adff51e88a70d1fa85d478b50eff0)
My choices seem to be:
1. Forge ahead and use a 3/32" rivet there next to the 1/8" rivet.
2. Fill the #40 hole with epoxy and leave the 1/8" rivet in place.
3. Remove the rivet, drill out the hole to #10 and replace with an AN509-10 flat head screw.
I'm leaning toward option 3 at the moment. The only drawback is that there's not quite enough edge distance on the canopy frame underneath the splice plate for a #10 screw. The material is plenty thick enough to countersink for the #10 screw head.
Dave