jcbarker

Well Known Member
To those that have QB fuselages and wings you will be installing a lot of Cherry Max rivets for the LCP remediation. They are a legal direct replacement for driven rivets. However, they do require special attention and technique. As such, if you are at all like me, you will make a mistake and need to remove a rivet. There's a lot of advice out there. Some of it not clear or contradictory so I went to the source, Cherry Aerospace and found they had a very good video on how to properly remove a Cherry Max rivet. The example is a CS rivet but the only difference is the universal head rivet head needs to be ground down about half it's height before continuing as per the video. I uses an abrasive wheel on a dremel for this. Here's the link to the video:
https://www.cherryaerospace.com/product/video/rivetremoval
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