Is there any worse feeling than when you're cruising along doing an really great job (you think) when it suddenly dawns on you that you've made a mistake?
Working on the large aileron pushrods, the plans call for 6 evenly spaced rivets. I layed-out everything so nicely, and drilled perfect holes only to discover I had only 5 evenly spaced holes.
I called Van's to see if I can salvage the pushrods and they said I had three options:
1) Leave it alone, 5 revits is still plenty. (about 1500# shear strength)
2) Just add another rivet in between 2 others (there is enough room, but would look like ****)
3) re-order rods and start over.
I thought perhaps some comments from the gallery would be in order.
Bill
(Rv-7a QB wings)
Working on the large aileron pushrods, the plans call for 6 evenly spaced rivets. I layed-out everything so nicely, and drilled perfect holes only to discover I had only 5 evenly spaced holes.
I called Van's to see if I can salvage the pushrods and they said I had three options:
1) Leave it alone, 5 revits is still plenty. (about 1500# shear strength)
2) Just add another rivet in between 2 others (there is enough room, but would look like ****)
3) re-order rods and start over.
I thought perhaps some comments from the gallery would be in order.
Bill
(Rv-7a QB wings)