{"id":698,"date":"2006-02-04T20:11:41","date_gmt":"2006-02-05T01:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/?p=698"},"modified":"2012-10-20T20:14:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T00:14:18","slug":"riveted-the-left-wings-front-spar-and-main-ribs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"Riveted the left wing’s front spar and main ribs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Captain John and his wife visited today. Before heading out to a movie and dinner, we riveted the left wing’s front spar and main ribs. Prior to John’s visit, I tried doing a few of these rivets myself – it’s significantly easier to do them with a partner and I was grateful for John’s help. Plus, he’s already done this procedure on his RV-7 wings.<\/p>\n

Here we are, riveting the wing walk ribs.<\/p>\n

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Rib riveting<\/p><\/div>\n

Two pairs of hands made quick work of all those ribs, and only a couple of drill-outs were required. Here’s the finished product.<\/p>\n

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Wing walk ribs<\/p><\/div>\n

I used my Christmas gift from my wife – the Sioux 2X rivet gun – on these rivets. The gun hits a little harder than I expected, but not quite as hard as my Avery 3X gun. It definitely hits a bit faster and feels better, probably because it’s a little heavier and doesn’t transfer quite as much vibration to the hand.<\/p>\n

I also tried some Snap-Socs on the rivet set. If you haven’t heard of them, Snap-Socs go over the end of the set and help keep it centered on the rivet. Supposedly they help minimize smilies on the rivet and skins\/flanges, and they seem to work as advertised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Captain John and his wife visited today. Before heading out to a movie and dinner, we riveted the left wing’s front spar and main ribs. Prior to John’s visit, I tried doing a few of these rivets myself – it’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}