I've made a few dents and dings in my practice project... making me nervous about starting on real aircraft parts!! A few questions:
1) For the AD-4 rivets (the thicker ones with the round head), is it the #30 drill bit I'm supposed to use?
2) Using the pneumatic squeezer for AD-4 rivets I found I had the turn the PSI way up to get the sqeezer to sqeeze the rivets hard enough. What PSI should typically be used for the squeezer?
3) On the squeezer, one side moves up to the other side which is stationary. For the round-head rivets, should the flush set be on the moving piston, with the cupped set on the stationary part (i.e. hold the stationary part with the cupped set against the rivet head, and let the flush set move up to strike and sqeeze the back of the rivet)?
4) I have a set of the rivet gauges... I presume the one that is labelled "-3" is the one to use with the AD-3 flush rivets? I find it's a fine line to get the shop head to the right diameter as well as height (there's not much room to wiggle between too-flat and not-wide-enough). I guess this just comes with practice.
5) I have another gauge of some sort which is a small rectangular piece, with different size notches cut out of all four corners (numbered -3,-4,-5,-6). What is this guage for?
Thanks!!
Phil
1) For the AD-4 rivets (the thicker ones with the round head), is it the #30 drill bit I'm supposed to use?
2) Using the pneumatic squeezer for AD-4 rivets I found I had the turn the PSI way up to get the sqeezer to sqeeze the rivets hard enough. What PSI should typically be used for the squeezer?
3) On the squeezer, one side moves up to the other side which is stationary. For the round-head rivets, should the flush set be on the moving piston, with the cupped set on the stationary part (i.e. hold the stationary part with the cupped set against the rivet head, and let the flush set move up to strike and sqeeze the back of the rivet)?
4) I have a set of the rivet gauges... I presume the one that is labelled "-3" is the one to use with the AD-3 flush rivets? I find it's a fine line to get the shop head to the right diameter as well as height (there's not much room to wiggle between too-flat and not-wide-enough). I guess this just comes with practice.
5) I have another gauge of some sort which is a small rectangular piece, with different size notches cut out of all four corners (numbered -3,-4,-5,-6). What is this guage for?
Thanks!!
Phil