Jeff R
Well Known Member
Removing flush head rivets has not been a skill I have mastered. Fortunately, most of my riveting of such rivets has been pretty good and I have not needed to remove very many but, when I did have to remove some, I too frequently botched it. I am pretty decent at removing regular rivets, but flush head rivets are something else. Can someone explain the best way to remove them? I ask this as I made a mistake and find I have to remove a bunch of rivets.
As a side note, have any of you become, well, sort of mentally attached to your airplane as you build it? I may be sitting inside with the family and find that my airplane is "calling me". If I don't spend time with it, it (she?) will get upset at me and cause me to make a mistake, thus requring me to spend more time with it (her). I have taken the last 3 weeks off to work on the plane and get back into flying, and the building has been going well. Today, I "told" the airplane I was going back to work tomorrow. Next thing I know, I find out I need to remove a few dozen, highly visible flush rivets, remove and replace a part, and re-rivet it all back together. Did I make my plane mad at me? Now, of course, this is crazy and I don't believe my plane is alive, but sometimes it sure seems like something strange is going on. Maybe it is just me bumming out about having to start work again and losing concentration. Just wondering if some of you have ever been "called" by your airplane to come on work on it?![Roll eyes :rolleyes: :rolleyes:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
As a side note, have any of you become, well, sort of mentally attached to your airplane as you build it? I may be sitting inside with the family and find that my airplane is "calling me". If I don't spend time with it, it (she?) will get upset at me and cause me to make a mistake, thus requring me to spend more time with it (her). I have taken the last 3 weeks off to work on the plane and get back into flying, and the building has been going well. Today, I "told" the airplane I was going back to work tomorrow. Next thing I know, I find out I need to remove a few dozen, highly visible flush rivets, remove and replace a part, and re-rivet it all back together. Did I make my plane mad at me? Now, of course, this is crazy and I don't believe my plane is alive, but sometimes it sure seems like something strange is going on. Maybe it is just me bumming out about having to start work again and losing concentration. Just wondering if some of you have ever been "called" by your airplane to come on work on it?