RV-4 Smoking rivets.
2 foot trail from several rivets after 45 minutes or less of flying.
No heavy G loads.
Location, bottom of fuse, center fuse seam between main wing spar and rear spar. It is the the cut you make, remove a long skinny wedge and splice back to make the big bottom sheet contour to the bottom of the fuse.
Rivet holes were machine counter sunk not dimpled.
Aircraft total time 935 hours. 1993 build.
No other smokers on the airframe. Aircraft is painted.
Options?
(a) wipe it off and keep flying
(b) gain access to shop heads and drive the rivets a few taps from the bottom.
(c) drill out smokers, install new rivets
(d) drill out smokers, install oops rivets ( larger shank, same head )
(e) other ?
Thank you in advance,
Mike
2 foot trail from several rivets after 45 minutes or less of flying.
No heavy G loads.
Location, bottom of fuse, center fuse seam between main wing spar and rear spar. It is the the cut you make, remove a long skinny wedge and splice back to make the big bottom sheet contour to the bottom of the fuse.
Rivet holes were machine counter sunk not dimpled.
Aircraft total time 935 hours. 1993 build.
No other smokers on the airframe. Aircraft is painted.
Options?
(a) wipe it off and keep flying
(b) gain access to shop heads and drive the rivets a few taps from the bottom.
(c) drill out smokers, install new rivets
(d) drill out smokers, install oops rivets ( larger shank, same head )
(e) other ?
Thank you in advance,
Mike