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Joe Parish
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I have a 3" yoke for my cleveland main squeeze. What other yokes will I need to build the emp if any? Thanks Joe
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The funny thing about the empennage is it pretty much uses almost all the tools you need on the full build! I ended up using the 3" yoke, the longeron yoke and the no-hole yoke. Only change I would make would be to get the 4" no-hole yoke instead of the 2 1/2" one I got from Avery. Although you can build the whole thing with the 2 1/2".
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Thanks Mike, I will put in order for both of those.
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Post by bruceh »

I have the longeron yoke, the 3" yoke and a 4" no hole. That does it for probably 98% of the potentially squeezed rivets. The other 2% are cases where the 3" yoke is either a little too big or too short.

Having a 4" yoke with a hole would be nice in some cases where you are trying to use the dimple dies, but it probably isn't worth the cost vs. just whacking it on the old C-Frame.
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