| When I got home today, nobody was around, so what do you do if you are
home alone? Shoot Rivets! Of Course.
I have choir practice tonight at 7:30 but I think that if I really try
to move on this, I may be able to finish up the HS by tonight. The
riveting actually goes along pretty fast now because I don't stop after
every rivet and check to see if the shop heads look reasonable. I pretty
much go by how long I squeeze the trigger on the gun. I still have the
blue plastic on the inside of the aft portion of the skin so I don't have
to worry too much about scratching the surface with the buck.
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| Here I've flipped over the HS and have shot all of the rivets in the
center, Liz came home and took the gun and I concentrated on bucking. We
really got into a rhythm and made good progress. All that's left now is
the ones that can be squeezed along the two flanges. Soooo.... (Irv, Tom
and anyone else who's worried about it) I am REMOVING THE PLASTIC! |
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| Liz wanted to try her hand at squeezing rivets. She got real good at it. |
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| Now I installed the rear spar. I start by clecoing the spar to both
HS-405's you may have to move the skin to get the holes to line up. before
the cleco will go in. |
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| Then install clecos in every 4th hole or so. This really strengthens it
up a lot. |
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| Now you can put rivets in every hole that ain't got a cleco. |
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| Squeezing goes along real fast and all of the rivets come out exactly
the same. |
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| Once I had one side of HS-601PP rivets down, I replaced the HS-405
clecos with AN470AD4-7 rivets. the -7 rivet is a real manly rivet. |
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| I've found that some of the holes need to be cleaned out with the #30
drill before the AD4 rivet will fit. |
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| I also put in the BSPQ-5-4 blind rivets into HS-708. |
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| Then I flipped it over to do the other side. Kathryn came home and wanted
to put in clecos. |
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| OK, Kathryn. You can be my "Official" cleco installer! |
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| The riveting went fast again and in no time WE WERE DONE WITH THE
HORIZONTAL STABILIZER! Kathryn reminded me that she was also the
"Official" plastic remover. |
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| Yeeee-HAAAAA! This thing is BEAUTIFUL! And It's 7:15, Just in time to go
to choir. |
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| Back from choir, no time to waste, Just some sort of a debate on TV so,
On to the Vertical Stabilizer.
First cleco the spar doubler (VS-808PP) to the spar (VS-803PP).
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| Then find VS-410, VS-411 and VS-412 hinge brackets and cleco them on. |
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The next Day
The Hammock Flew
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