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| From Pete and Tad's RV-9a Build |
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| From Pete and Tad's RV-9a Build |
Tad did a great job on the primer work in his shop and magically arrived on Sunday morning with everything ready for assembly. he spent a couple of hours doing that work so that will be added to the log.
We took a bit of time to read the plans again and dial in the pneumatic squeezer i got from Isham Tools. I don't have the adjustable one so after a few washer settings we gave a shot. At first, we took our time doing them and making sure we have proper shop heads on the rivets. The really nice thing with the squeezer is once you have it set, it provides nice consistent rivets throughout. We drilled out a few(or Tad did) as we didn't get good countersinks and the factory head was slightly high. We just manually did a quick turn of the deburring tool to take it down a bit, then rivet again. Tad was good at getting them out... perfect everytime.
We got as far as assembly of the nose ribs in the skin, then clecoed in the spar and ribs. Hopefully tonight we'll finish off the riveting on the left side!!
I'll post up some pics later when i get them off the camera!
So far we are pleased with the results we are seeing after all the preparation!
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| From Pete and Tad's RV-9a Build |
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| From Pete and Tad's RV-9a Build |
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| From Pete and Tad's RV-9a Build |
