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Date:  9-13-2009
Number of Hours:  0.10
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Brief Description:  Rivet 29: Conical Bend Area

Here are some other photos of the conical area.

The outside bend and corner are pretty tight. I little hole where the radius is so that skin doesn't crack. I put some blue silicon under here.

It was tough riveting the bend. The tabs on the 706 underneath did not want to stay flush up against the skin. I had to hold them up with a large screw driver and buck them in the other hand with a bucking bar. So the primer got scratched. One problem rivet kept having too small of a head. I ended up squeezing a -6 down to a fat -5 and using it to get a good size shop head. Though ugly I think it is functional.

The seam between side and bottom skins is pretty good but opens about 1/16 at the corner.

I hope we do better on the other side.
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Here you can see the bend

Here you can see the bend

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Kinda ugly but functional

Kinda ugly but functional

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Fairly tight seam here.

Fairly tight seam here.

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