Golf Echo
Active Member
Greetings,
Hopefully I don't win a prize for dumbest first post ever, but here goes...
I've received and inventoried my empennage kit for what will someday become an RV-7. I've pondered my choices for engines and avionics, but today, my question is a little more rudimentary...
In riveting the reinforcement plates and ribs to the spar (of the practice kit) I'm getting some deformation and separation of the rib flange (see photo). I'm using the Cleaveland pneumatic squeezer to set the rivets. Is this simply an issue of inadequate clamping? I tried putting a cleco clamp near to the rivet being set, but it didn't seem to help. I'm going to drill them out and re-rivet for practice, but I figured somebody might have seen this before. Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance for the help. This site has already been an enormous resource for me.
Hopefully I don't win a prize for dumbest first post ever, but here goes...
I've received and inventoried my empennage kit for what will someday become an RV-7. I've pondered my choices for engines and avionics, but today, my question is a little more rudimentary...
In riveting the reinforcement plates and ribs to the spar (of the practice kit) I'm getting some deformation and separation of the rib flange (see photo). I'm using the Cleaveland pneumatic squeezer to set the rivets. Is this simply an issue of inadequate clamping? I tried putting a cleco clamp near to the rivet being set, but it didn't seem to help. I'm going to drill them out and re-rivet for practice, but I figured somebody might have seen this before. Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance for the help. This site has already been an enormous resource for me.