DRDT ?!? Hecks sake, Chad ...if I had YOUR money I'd be flying a Cirrus.

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CJ, I always have the male die on the bottom. When you pull the upper surface back to slide the lower into the C-frame, the lower skins arches up ... away from the die. I tried best I could to flatten it back down, but was getting nasty marks in the process. (just like gradeschool... :roll: ) Did yo...

Did anybody elese have trouble getting nice clean dimples in the elev skin when using a C-frame? Because of the rounded pre-formed leading edge, when I did the dimples near there, the skin tended to arch up away from the dimple die ... I got decent dimples, but there were noticeable pucker marks alo...

I tried to squeeze those, but w/o a longeron yoke it was no dice. I shot 'em ...and really had no problem getting a bucking bar in there. I was concerned at first, but with 90psi on the rivet gun, those babies crush in no time. :mrgreen: Spike, you and I are at nearly exactly the same place in the c...

At least three of of us will be in OSH for Wed thru Sat morning . There may be three more ... they haven't for sure committed yet. Right now I have two rooms reserved in a Best Western about 40mi from OSH. The cost per room with tax is about $120 to $130 per night , split between two guys. Looks lik...

Interesting thing about those bucking bars ... didja notice how much they vary in price fromone supplier to another? I cross checked all the the suppliers and ordered my bars from absolutely the lowest price outfit. I never paid more the $15 and usually closer to $10. I'm happy with all of 'em , and...

Depending on cost I too would be interested!

Hey ...wait a minute ...do any of you guys snore?


Rupester

Negative on the "big die" idea. If it were hitting the work before the rivet, it would really be scarring up my aluminum. No sign of such. I've also tried 3 different AN470 rivet sets ... same result with all three. FYI ... when I can squeeze the 1/8" rivets, they're going fine. Question: Do you guy...

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm using a good size bucking bar ... certainly not a small one, though I don't know the exact lbs. I may have to put a pressure gauge on the gun itself. I'm using the Vans-recommended swivel-regulator at the gun. My gauge off the compressor reads 85psi, as does the gauge...

I'm having a devil of a time setting the 1/8" 470 rivets. They do NOT want to form a shop head when I try to buck 'em . I'm using an ATS 3X rivet gun with 80psi off the compressor, reduced at the gun. On some of the longer rivets (6's and 8's) I have to shoot for multiple minutes to get any "crush" ...

Sorry 'bout that. It was a stuttering trigger finger, not terminal redundancy.

You're right, Spike. I had to read that section about 6 times ...and refer to drawing 27A more than once... before I was sure. Drawing 27A (re: rear end of fuse) says the 9 A bottom hinge support gets rivets on the same spacing as the top hinge support. It's there, but a little camoflaged in all the...

You're right, Spike. I had to read that section about 6 times ...and refer to drawing 27A more than once... before I was sure. Drawing 27A (re: rear end of fuse) says the 9 A bottom hinge support gets rivets on the same spacing as the top hinge support. It's there, but a little camoflaged in all the...

That's the kind of report that makes us Nine builders head back out to the shop to buck "just a few more" rivets. Thanks for the inspiring report!!! Let us know more as the test phase proceeds.

Stickin' my big nose in .... just east of Nashville, near Murphysboro, is Stones River National Battlefield. One of the better civil war parks. Theres also a small but interesting civil war battlefield in Franklin, TN ... a very pretty (and trendy) town south of N'ville. The battlefield was the prim...

Me three ... (for the embroidered version).

I have bucked 100% of my rivets so far ... no trouble except for the l-o-n-g 1/8" rivets in the spars. It appears I'm gonna have to beg my spousal unit for help on some of those. I do not use a swivel set with collar .. I tried those at the Sportair workshop ... most guys (including moi)didn't like ...

My skydiving was done 6 Vulcan-eons ago when I was 21. Now you couldn't PRY me out of an airplane unless it were on fire. (Flames licking at your nether regions can impell you to do odd things. )

I'm thinking the same way, Chad. That latest crank bulletin from Lyco is r-e-a-l-l-y disgusting. Large sums of green for a potentially "buggy" engine, whereupon fixing the mfgr's screwups requires more large sums of green. :bang: Some of the guys I've talked to at OSH with Egg-Subies said they had i...

I talked to Ken at the Vans builders' help line about this several weeks ago. Though I'm desperately afraid CJ will get a big head about this :wink: , Ken said, " Peel the blue stuff off. T :wink: The longer it's on, the harder it is to get off, and besides, the last thing you'll do before you paint...