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Date:  11-16-2011
Number of Hours:  0.75
Manual Reference:  6-7
Brief Description:  Riveted Hard to Reach Rudder Rivets

I've been researching and trying to come up with a way to drive solid rivets in the narrow areas of the rudder ribs. I used a variety of tools to achieve my objective with mostly good results. I sort of cratered the last rivet on the hardest to reach rivet on the top rib. You can see it in my mistakes category. I probably should have just used a pop rivet but I was just so driven to get all solid rivets set. It can probably be covered up when it comes time for paint so I'm not too worried about it. I would love to make the perfect airplane but it dosen't look like that will happen but I will try to get as close as I can to one. I used a flat piece of metal mostly to indirectly back-rivet with and a masonry punch and flat crowbar to get the last few rivets done.
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Indirect back-riveting with flat metal.

Indirect back-riveting with flat metal.

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Masonry punch and flat crowbar in distance.

Masonry punch and flat crowbar in distance.

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The punch worked nicely.

The punch worked nicely.

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