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Traci and Tom's RV-7A
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Date: 11-7-2013
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Number of Hours: 1.50
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Brief Description: Riveting the right elevator leading edges.
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I started with the narrower flange of the leading edge, way out near the tip. Start easy, then suffer later with the long ones!
Being narrow, it was fairly easy to bend it and kind of learn how to do the rest of them. Just overbend them a lttle so they overlap tightly.
Match drill, deburr, then install the blind rivets. Not much else to it, but I had to bend, check, bend again, check, bend a little more, check....then it looked pretty good to rivet.
I did get some "pooching" between the rivets as you can see. Some buliders put an additional rivet between those, but as long as they are tight it's not really needed. I've seen a lot of other builders with worse. I think as long as the curve looks decent, and nothing pops open it's all good!
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Rolled and starting to blind rivet the smaller flange.
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Outer is done, looks pretty tight.
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Some slight bulging between rivets, but as long as it holds - that works.
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