squeeze – PH-MNX http://ph-mnx.nl Building and Flying my π in the Sky Sun, 24 Sep 2017 18:04:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.6 http://ph-mnx.nl/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2023/01/cropped-maverick_150-32x32.png squeeze – PH-MNX http://ph-mnx.nl 32 32 Training project Assembly http://ph-mnx.nl/2017/09/24/training-project-assembly/ http://ph-mnx.nl/2017/09/24/training-project-assembly/#respond Sun, 24 Sep 2017 18:04:04 +0000 http://marcelheijmans.net/rv7/?p=246 After priming I can start today with assembling and riveting. My dad still had an armor steel plate from the army (he retired decades ago). It’s 8mm thick and I can use MDF to embed it so I get a nice back-rivet table.

The back-rivet results are prefect. Which makes it painfully obvious that riveting with the bucking bar is much harder. Well at least I can practice drilling out rivets.

The biggest mistake I made was thinking that I was proficient enough in dimpling with the squeezer, so I could speed things up. I missed the hole and pushed the lever next to it. If there are any doubts in how hard a squeezer can squeeze. Well, it punches right through the flanges of the ribs. Maybe I can cut time by not drilling, but just punch and dimple in one swoop.

Really glad this is the training project and NOT my actual Empennage rib.

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