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    Millions of rivets...

    rivets that need to be invented Has anyone seen that tongue-in-cheek diagram of useful rivets? Like binocular rivets for the time you drilled two holes where there should be one, offset head, for when you drill too close to the edge, dog-leg for when the sheets don't align, etc? Its an oldie...
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    Drawing a rivet--technique 101

    You can also put a _very_ small rubber o-ring on the tail of the rivet. It should force the skins together but still squish down to allow a correct shop head to form. brwood
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    The best shop tip i ever got

    Gotta agree with you there. I tell my students that thinking is the hardest work that they will ever do. We are lazy, don't want to think it through (or never learned how). Somewhere in the educational process we lost our conviction that we _CAN_ figure it out. brwood
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    More on riveting

    Manual dexterity comes into play here. I have a neighbor who buit an RV-4 in his garage. Really thin skins on the tail (.016 I think). When he was done you would swear the plane was made of composite, smoothest metal I have ever seen. It helps that one of his partners is a professional sheet...
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    Riveting errata

    Hi Craig, Thanks for the nice words. Anapolis is in the central-west highland plains of Brasil, about 120 km southwest of Brasilia, about 60 km north-east of Goiania, capital of Goias state. I teach aircraft maintenance to prospective missionary pilot/mechanics in a small mission aviaton...
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    Riveting errata

    One factor that has not been mentioned is the solid rivet's ability to swell and fill in an imperfectly drilled hole. I suspect a lot of those loose blind rivets, are loose because of imperfect hole preparation. All blind rivets are very sensitive to hole size--Cherry-Max rivets, for example...
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