Rivet advise please

Michael Horowitz wrote in
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:44:51 -0700 (PDT), Bob Kuykendall
wrote:

On Aug 21, 2:00Â*pm, Michael Horowitz wrote:

Bob - thanks for your reasoned response. I'd like to hear more about
how you lined the drift along the rivet axis so that you got a
symetrical mushroom head - Mike

Mike, I just held the drift as straight as I could eyeball it and
whacked it with a claw hammer. There are a couple relevant photos in
the latest HP-24 project update:

http://www.hpaircraft.com/hp-24/update_25_aug_08.htm

Thanks, Bob K.


That's just as I've envisioned and tried, except I was using standard
head rivets (placed in a slight indendation in my anvil to hold the
head). I thought maybe my problem was using hard rivets, but that's
what you are using - Mike


That is the way almost every Sonex builder sets the 300ish solid rivets in
the wing spar.

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