WingedFrog
Well Known Member
Hi fellow builders,
I just finished the 10 steps of the first page of section 6 Vertical Stabilizer.
The first difficulties I faced was for using the Avery hand squeezer that came with the Avery RV-12 tool kit: sparse documentation, clearly not intended at the new bee I am. With the help of a fellow EAA member (thank you Dwight Frye!) I was able to squeeze my first 10 rivets of the lower and upper hinge assemblies. It took me a while to figure out that I had to do the squeezing in two pass because I am not Schwarzeneger when it comes to muscles. I also found out that to determine if a rivet head is properly set I needed a rivet gauge... which is not included in the tool set! I managed to make my own gauge following instructions from a previous posting on this forum (thank you very much!). I think that I did a decent job with my first ten err twenty squeezes but ...
I don't dare to check the coming instruction pages to figure out how many more solid rivets I will have to squeeze. My question to those who have been trough the empennage: is it reasonable for a guy in his sixties to complete all the solid rivets with this tool? If not I will feel cheated by Avery, unless they accept to take the squeezer back. I read all what's available on the subject and knows the alternative (Cleaveland or pneumatic) what I want to hear is from folks who did it with the Avery tool... all the way... if these folks exist... I need hope!
I just finished the 10 steps of the first page of section 6 Vertical Stabilizer.
The first difficulties I faced was for using the Avery hand squeezer that came with the Avery RV-12 tool kit: sparse documentation, clearly not intended at the new bee I am. With the help of a fellow EAA member (thank you Dwight Frye!) I was able to squeeze my first 10 rivets of the lower and upper hinge assemblies. It took me a while to figure out that I had to do the squeezing in two pass because I am not Schwarzeneger when it comes to muscles. I also found out that to determine if a rivet head is properly set I needed a rivet gauge... which is not included in the tool set! I managed to make my own gauge following instructions from a previous posting on this forum (thank you very much!). I think that I did a decent job with my first ten err twenty squeezes but ...
I don't dare to check the coming instruction pages to figure out how many more solid rivets I will have to squeeze. My question to those who have been trough the empennage: is it reasonable for a guy in his sixties to complete all the solid rivets with this tool? If not I will feel cheated by Avery, unless they accept to take the squeezer back. I read all what's available on the subject and knows the alternative (Cleaveland or pneumatic) what I want to hear is from folks who did it with the Avery tool... all the way... if these folks exist... I need hope!