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Mark Weitkamp CX4
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Date: 10-18-2010
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Number of Hours: 4.00
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Brief Description: mounting and using the arbor press
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After talking with Ev Young yesterday, about how he had used an arbor press to squeeze the rivets on the spars, I decided to get my own arbor press. I drilled a hole in a handy steel plate to hold the rivet set, and I polished the end of the arbor press rack to serve as a bucking bar substitute. I tried several rivet squeezes on my latest practice piece. Ev had pointed out to me that a lot of my rivets were too short, and once I corrected that problem, the shop heads started looking much better. The smilies are gone, and the few problems I still have with shop heads, I think are due to the practice piece moving as the rivet was squeezed. With the spars themselves, I think the larger mass, and better attention to supporting and clamping, I can eliminate that movement.
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