Flyin'Bryan
Well Known Member
I searched the entire forum using the word "buck," and as usual found lots of good intel on bucking rivets, but not precisley what I was looking for, thus this post to my fellow RV 8 builders.
I have all but finished mashing rivets on the HS, but I cannot seem to get my pneumatic squeezer with the 3 inch yoke to fit the small space for the 4 remaining rivets on the leading edge of each end rib. (top and bottom holes). Nor am I comfortable trying to get the tungsten bucking bar in there, since it seems to be a bit too small of a space for that as well.
I do not want to use pull rivets, and I am in the process of ordering the 4 inch thin nose yoke for the squeezer, but I don't want to wait for that to finish it up if I don't have to. I do have the cleveland close quarters bar with the dimple dye on the end, which is only about a 1/4 inch thick, and was thinking about strapping the tungsten bar as close to the opposite edge of that to give it some muscle, and then using it to reach in and buck those 4 remaining rivets.
Obviously many of you have already done this, so I'm sure there are many answers. I also have the end of a crow bar that will fit, and a small sized back rivet plate that will fit, but is a bit hard to handle effectively. I was just a bit saddened when I could not get my squeezer yoke to fit in there, especially since they were the last rivets on this assembly. So, looking for the quickest, easiest way to this this.
Thanks in advance.
Bryan
I have all but finished mashing rivets on the HS, but I cannot seem to get my pneumatic squeezer with the 3 inch yoke to fit the small space for the 4 remaining rivets on the leading edge of each end rib. (top and bottom holes). Nor am I comfortable trying to get the tungsten bucking bar in there, since it seems to be a bit too small of a space for that as well.
I do not want to use pull rivets, and I am in the process of ordering the 4 inch thin nose yoke for the squeezer, but I don't want to wait for that to finish it up if I don't have to. I do have the cleveland close quarters bar with the dimple dye on the end, which is only about a 1/4 inch thick, and was thinking about strapping the tungsten bar as close to the opposite edge of that to give it some muscle, and then using it to reach in and buck those 4 remaining rivets.
Obviously many of you have already done this, so I'm sure there are many answers. I also have the end of a crow bar that will fit, and a small sized back rivet plate that will fit, but is a bit hard to handle effectively. I was just a bit saddened when I could not get my squeezer yoke to fit in there, especially since they were the last rivets on this assembly. So, looking for the quickest, easiest way to this this.
Thanks in advance.
Bryan