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Daniels Web Site
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Date: 4-11-2012
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Number of Hours: 6.00
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Manual Reference: 6-5
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Brief Description: VS Final Assembly Part 2
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This entry is a combination of three long, very frusterating days of work... Six hours maybe on the short side of the hours I worked on simply riveting the skin on the VS... More curse words were yelled at this task then any other step... The learning curve here for me personally was super steep! long story made short, I probably drilled out 100 flush rivets that I couldn't get set to my liking, most were probably "okay" but my perfectionistic OCD was killing me. Lessions learned in the past three days, 6-8+ hours of flush riveting the skin on the VS... 1) Build a holding fixture for the part being assembled!!!!!!!!!!!! Or clamp it to your workbench. DO NOT try to hold the assembly, buck and use the rivet gun all at the same time! 2) Have a second person help you buck! 3) Patience & persistance... If you drive just three good rivets and the next three are bad, walk away, breath and work on something else (my case, deburring & preping the HS) or simply call it a day, come back the next day and do a few more rivets. You'll learn riveting is an art not a science. you'll get dings and scratches in your skin... Heck, it's a aluminum plane. If you want the composite look, build a composite plane. Rivets and dimples are part of the beauty of an all metal plane!!!! 4) Invest in tungsten bucking bars a 1"x 1" x 4" with one angled face & a 1"x1"x2" square. these to blocks of will run you about $260..00 but are way more valuble then any other tool in the shop. I have about 5 more rivets to set on the VS (too tight to get to) but have to wait till my mini tungsten bar gets here saturday. I'm very satisfied how well it all came together in the end... Look how pretty the inside of my VS is, all rivet set in tolerance plus no scratches in the expoy primer So, at this point, I'm declearing the VS done, in this post. I'll add the final external picture Saturday. Thank you Bill & Peter for your guidence, help & time!
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Inside VS looks darn skippy to me
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Front spar rivets - Pretty rivets
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100% complete VS
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