s10sakota
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I am so frustrated right now I'd like to beat this airplane with a sledge hammer!!
I'm trying to rivet the seat pan ribs and baggage compartment ribs to the aft spar. I can't figure out why my rivets are folding over.
In one hole, the rivet cracked and broke right as I started squeezing it. They are very difficult to drill out because the head is on the inside of a rib. I drilled it out, put another rivet in, and it folded over. Drilled that rivet out, made such a mess of the hole, that I had to put a bolt in it.
Now I have two others that folded over and I have to figure out how to drill them out without messing up the holes.
Here's one...
Same one...
And look at this one-it's folded and maybe cracked.
I am squeezing these with a high quality squeezer. I'm trying to keep everything square and the squeezer 90 degrees to the surface.
So why are these dang rivets folding? I'm using the proper rivets per the plans, and they don't appear to be too long. Should I use shorter ones anyway?
What am I doing wrong??? Why does no one else have any of these issues? Every blog I read they all say "riveted the ribs in. Pretty easy...no problems, etc..."
I'm trying to rivet the seat pan ribs and baggage compartment ribs to the aft spar. I can't figure out why my rivets are folding over.
In one hole, the rivet cracked and broke right as I started squeezing it. They are very difficult to drill out because the head is on the inside of a rib. I drilled it out, put another rivet in, and it folded over. Drilled that rivet out, made such a mess of the hole, that I had to put a bolt in it.
Now I have two others that folded over and I have to figure out how to drill them out without messing up the holes.
Here's one...
Same one...
And look at this one-it's folded and maybe cracked.
I am squeezing these with a high quality squeezer. I'm trying to keep everything square and the squeezer 90 degrees to the surface.
So why are these dang rivets folding? I'm using the proper rivets per the plans, and they don't appear to be too long. Should I use shorter ones anyway?
What am I doing wrong??? Why does no one else have any of these issues? Every blog I read they all say "riveted the ribs in. Pretty easy...no problems, etc..."
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