Again, no pictures to document recent work. Over the last three days I riveted the right elevator frame to its skin. I tried some techniques to buck solid rivets in those hard-to-reach trailing edges. I polished the business end of a chisel and used it and a hammer as a sort-of back rivet set, along with the back-riveting plate, to set these rivets. No luck. So, I wound up using the pneumatic squeezer with my pseudo-reliable 4″ no-hole yoke, and managed to bend the rib flanges enough to get the yoke nose in and squeeze the rivets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Again, no pictures to document recent work. Over the last three days I riveted the right elevator frame to its skin. I tried some techniques to buck solid rivets in those hard-to-reach trailing edges. I polished the business end of … Continue reading