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Date:  4-27-2021
Number of Hours:  5.00
Manual Reference:  32-05
Brief Description:  Installed baggage floors

Laid in the baggage floors, clecoed and began riveting. There are a lot of pull rivets for this area so I purchased the $50 harbor freight pneumatic riveter. Boy what a time and grip saver. The gun works pretty good once the oil level stabilizes to a point where it won't leak but be careful you don't get the oil all over everything prior to it stabilizing. It worked like a champ and really saves time and effort. I can't imagine using a manual squeezer for all these rivets. I rotated it on the rotisserie after i had a few installed which made it easier to access. Some of the outer edge holes wouldn't line up perfectly to allow the LP4-3 rivets to install easily so a had to final ream a few holes. I only did this as a last resort when all other attempts to line up the holes didn't work.
As a note, the plans call for 426 (flush rivets) along the baggage bulkhead yet no where in the plans does it call for those holes to be dimpled so I used 470 rivets instead and assumed a typo on Vans' part.
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Riveting baggages floor

Riveting baggages floor

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Floors laid in and clecoed

Floors laid in and clecoed

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Pneumatic riveter.  What a time saver!

Pneumatic riveter. What a time saver!

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