LAMPSguy
Well Known Member
I stopped by our tech counselor to get some tips and get learned up on this rivet stuff.
I have been reading these forums for years and take pretty good notes. That being said, I think I made them all tonight! I started working on the tool box because I thought it would be the easiest of the two practice kits...by the end, even though I have been warned in these forums, I had:
-Drilled oval holes
-Poked a drill into my knuckle (only a flesh wound)
-Pinched myself with a cleco clamp
-Scratched the aluminum
-deburred too deeply (the hinge Al is much softer than the sheet)
-Pushed too hard with the drill
-measured once and started to drill...didn't catch the mistake until ALL the rivets were set
etc
So, I learned a lot, actually smiled rather than got mad when making mistakes, learned a lot, had fun, learned a lot.....
This is great stuff! I think I have never had so much fun screwing up so much!
I have been reading these forums for years and take pretty good notes. That being said, I think I made them all tonight! I started working on the tool box because I thought it would be the easiest of the two practice kits...by the end, even though I have been warned in these forums, I had:
-Drilled oval holes
-Poked a drill into my knuckle (only a flesh wound)
-Pinched myself with a cleco clamp
-Scratched the aluminum
-deburred too deeply (the hinge Al is much softer than the sheet)
-Pushed too hard with the drill
-measured once and started to drill...didn't catch the mistake until ALL the rivets were set
etc
So, I learned a lot, actually smiled rather than got mad when making mistakes, learned a lot, had fun, learned a lot.....
This is great stuff! I think I have never had so much fun screwing up so much!