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Date:  8-3-2014
Number of Hours:  1.50
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Brief Description:  Started riveting front spar

I decided to order a replacement rear spar because I got a little trigger happy with the foot trigger while dimpling the LH rear spar and put an extra hole next to the one that supposed to be there. I sent photos to van's technical support and they recommended replacement.

So while waiting for the new part I decided to start riveting the front spar. I used the pneumatic squeezer on those rivets that I could get to with the 4" yoke but there were a number that couldn't be reached due to the flanges on the spar or reinforcement angles. I could buck them but my preference is to squeeze since it should result in more consistent rivets so I decided to order a longeron yoke from Avery. I've been planning to order one anyway since I'm bound to need it multiple times before the airplane is finished.

There were a couple that didn't pass the quality check, even though they were installed using the squeezer so I drilled them out which went will without the need for oversize rivets.
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Front spar riviting in work - need longeron yoke to get to the rest

Front spar riviting in work - need longeron yoke to get to the rest

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Shop heads.

Shop heads.

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Factory heads

Factory heads

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