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Date:  12-7-2014
Number of Hours:  0.50
Manual Reference:  Sec 14
Brief Description:  Riveting the flap brackets

Hand or pneumatic squeezer don't work here. I need to rivet these out using the 3X rivet gun. I have setup a pressure regulator in line between the compressor delivering 120 psi and my rivet gun that runs at 40 psi. Much more controlable.

Time to time you make a mistake like the one below. Drilling off the head and removing it is one thing but getting rid of the rivet body left behind is another thing. For that purpose, I made a rivet pusher of os an automatic centering punch. A block of harwood behind the part allow for rivet extraction without deforming the delicate aluminum part.
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One down. 3 more to go

One down. 3 more to go

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Outch... Not good.

Outch... Not good.

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Rivet pusher

Rivet pusher

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