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Mark's Web Site
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Date: 1-8-2014
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Number of Hours: 0.50
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Manual Reference: 06-05
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Brief Description: Rivetting lower spar cap to VS spar (06-05)
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It's been at or below zero the last several days, so I've not done any work out in the garage until this evening. It's only 29 deg, so I started reading the next steps (06-05) which call for setting my first pull rivets. So I did some trials on a scrap part first with the hand puller, then with the pneumatic puller. I quickly noticed, based on the condition afterward, that the tip on the pneumatic puller was too large for the size rivets I was using. I switched to the right size tip and set the air to about 60psi and it was working great, although still leaving a little rough edge around the hole. So I added some tape to the tip and did some more practice runs to see if that improved (not much difference). I'll keep working at it, but in the meantime set the clecos to rivet on the left and right lower spar caps. I need to check to make other build sites to make sure I'm going the right direction.
Also, Vans told me they are sending a replacement for the VS that arrived with a dent, so I'm using this one for practice.
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cleco prior to setting rivets
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Added some tape to rivet gun to see if that helps
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me holding old VS, currently using as practice until the new one arrives
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