I was checking over my work on the empennage when much to my horror I discovered that I used the wrong rivets to attach the WD-01207-1 & the WD-01208-1 to the HS-01233 Brackets. I used POP rivets LP4-3 instead of AN470AD4-6.
If I could post pictures here I'd show you what I had to do to replace those rivets. Not only could I not get a drill in there to drill out the pop rivets, there was no way for me to get any of my hand squeezers in there to squeeze the AN470AD4-6 rivets.
Long story short... after fighting for an hour to get the pop rivets out, I stood the rear stabilator up on it's end so it was sticking 8 feet straight up and then I balanced my floor pneumatic squeezer on one of those 12" high foot stools Harbor freight sells... and then with the 9" throat on my floor squeezer I was able to squeeze the AN470AD4-6 rivets home. It actually worked out great, but would not have been necessary in the first place if I didn't use the wrong rivet to begin with.
Lesson learned... double and triple check everything you think you know well about what the plans are telling you to do.
If I could post pictures here I'd show you what I had to do to replace those rivets. Not only could I not get a drill in there to drill out the pop rivets, there was no way for me to get any of my hand squeezers in there to squeeze the AN470AD4-6 rivets.
Long story short... after fighting for an hour to get the pop rivets out, I stood the rear stabilator up on it's end so it was sticking 8 feet straight up and then I balanced my floor pneumatic squeezer on one of those 12" high foot stools Harbor freight sells... and then with the 9" throat on my floor squeezer I was able to squeeze the AN470AD4-6 rivets home. It actually worked out great, but would not have been necessary in the first place if I didn't use the wrong rivet to begin with.
Lesson learned... double and triple check everything you think you know well about what the plans are telling you to do.
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