Brief Description: RD: Rivetting rudder control horn
I been waiting for what felt like forever and a day for a shipment to arrive from the States. Included in this shipment was a longeron yolk for my pneumatic rivet squeezer. It finally arrived and thankfully I'm back and building!
Using the longeron yolk, the rivets on the rudder control horn proved to be no sweat at all. It meant that I could use solid rives throughout the understructure thus far as apposed to the pop-rivets I would've had to have used otherwise.
By all accounts and according to plans, using pop-rivets for the four rivets at the bottom of the control horn is no issue, I'm just happier using the solid rivets if at all possible.
Right now, I have to wait for my next inspection before I can continue on the rudder. Thankfully though, it is scheduled for 16h00 tomorrow afternoon (08 Nov 2007)... holding thumbs that all goes well, but I'm sure it will!
Inspecting my handiwork as I progress slowly
Without the longeron yolk, I would not have been able to use solid rivets on the bottom four rivets.
