georgemohr
Well Known Member
Hi all!
Here's a scenario: You are riveting a doubler to a spar with five AD4 universal rivets. You cleco and match drill the holes to #30, then disassemble and deburr. Putting the parts back together with clecos you begin riveting. You find that the fourth rivet will not quite fit in its hole. Perhaps some small error during match drilling caused some tiny misalignment.
Now the conundrum: how to deal with this. The obvious fix it to re-drill the offending hole, but we will be unable to deburr both sides of both parts because the parts are already partially riveted together.
So the question, is it acceptable to re-drill in situ and just deburr the outer surfaces? Or must we fix the hole in a more nuanced way, perhaps with a small file? Or must we drill out all these rivets (pls dont say yes to that LOL).
TY!
George
P.S. I have this problem on the practice kit, fortunately hehe
Here's a scenario: You are riveting a doubler to a spar with five AD4 universal rivets. You cleco and match drill the holes to #30, then disassemble and deburr. Putting the parts back together with clecos you begin riveting. You find that the fourth rivet will not quite fit in its hole. Perhaps some small error during match drilling caused some tiny misalignment.
Now the conundrum: how to deal with this. The obvious fix it to re-drill the offending hole, but we will be unable to deburr both sides of both parts because the parts are already partially riveted together.
So the question, is it acceptable to re-drill in situ and just deburr the outer surfaces? Or must we fix the hole in a more nuanced way, perhaps with a small file? Or must we drill out all these rivets (pls dont say yes to that LOL).
TY!
George
P.S. I have this problem on the practice kit, fortunately hehe
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