A question a week from me. I'm on a roll.
This past weekend, my dad, a family friend, and I were riveting the inboard wing skins. All was well, until I got to the inboard rear spar rivets, where the doubler fork and plate is already riveted to the spar with universal-head rivets. The thickness of the doublers and rivet heads was enough to interfere with trying to set the skin-to-spar rivets.
I'm still drilling out other rivets. But these ones worry me the most about how to set them. You can see how they literally were half-set. One I tried back-riveting, the other I tried with my squeezer. I'm not even sure my tungsten bar would be thin enough to fit between the unset tail and the edge of the doubler plate if I were to try flush riveting.
How'd the rest of you do these?
This past weekend, my dad, a family friend, and I were riveting the inboard wing skins. All was well, until I got to the inboard rear spar rivets, where the doubler fork and plate is already riveted to the spar with universal-head rivets. The thickness of the doublers and rivet heads was enough to interfere with trying to set the skin-to-spar rivets.
I'm still drilling out other rivets. But these ones worry me the most about how to set them. You can see how they literally were half-set. One I tried back-riveting, the other I tried with my squeezer. I'm not even sure my tungsten bar would be thin enough to fit between the unset tail and the edge of the doubler plate if I were to try flush riveting.
How'd the rest of you do these?