Mad MAC
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Has anyone had much to do with automatic riveting machines?
I am curious to know do they de-burr holes at the interfacing surfaces or do they manage to control the process to eliminate the requirement.
Why am I asking well the paper below pages 43 to 46 covers the benefits of various riveting types (although doesn't include over driven rivets), which also includes double knife edge slug rivets that are good for a million cycles, so now I keep sketching concepts that would allow one to design an externally tooled wing that could be built using a relativity simple automatic riveter (closer to a homebuilt cnc router, than a robotic arm type) assuming one doesn't have to disassembly to de-burr between drilling and riviting.
https://www.raes.org.au/images/uplo...Documents/Presentation-Dr-John-Hart-Smith.pdf
I am curious to know do they de-burr holes at the interfacing surfaces or do they manage to control the process to eliminate the requirement.
Why am I asking well the paper below pages 43 to 46 covers the benefits of various riveting types (although doesn't include over driven rivets), which also includes double knife edge slug rivets that are good for a million cycles, so now I keep sketching concepts that would allow one to design an externally tooled wing that could be built using a relativity simple automatic riveter (closer to a homebuilt cnc router, than a robotic arm type) assuming one doesn't have to disassembly to de-burr between drilling and riviting.
https://www.raes.org.au/images/uplo...Documents/Presentation-Dr-John-Hart-Smith.pdf
