RV-9A: Ailerons - 5/31/2007
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 Finished riveting on the gap fairings (kind of)
I used my Avery hand squeezer and small no-hole yoke to put in the rivets on the skin side and used the rivet gun and bucking bar on the rear spar.
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 The deck I put on the wing cradle came in handy
I didn't realize at the time when I added the plywood shelf on the wing cradle that it would serve as scaffold for me to stand on while I was squeezing rivets on the gap seals. Cool!
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 Still more left to do...
There are two flat head rivets that have to be put in that are hard to reach. Now I know why there are notches in the push-rod shaft of the squeezer. To get the rivet set up to the rivet, I had to put the rivet set into the yoke after it was put into position for the squeezing session. Then I had to use a small open end wrench to un-screw the squeezer shaft so it would move up into position for the final squeezing. This really takes a long time, but it works. One down, 3 more to go.
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