Here's
what being in a hurry and out of practice can do for you. This is
the bottom most rivet attaching the bellcrank ribs to the F-1007
frame. These are AD4 universal head rivets… I still
haven't gotten the hang of bucking these. The upper two I used
the squeezer on, the bottom one proved to be too far away for our yoke
to reach. So I hastily brought out the offset universal head
rivet set and rivet gun & fired away... After the first shot,
the set bounced off producing the smiley you see here. So, I
pressed harder the next time. The F-1007 frame is relatively thin
material so the frame web around the rivet started bending. I had
to hit it a few more times in order to get an "acceptable" shop head on
the rivet, but the web of the frame shows it! Its not terrible by
any means, but definitely not perfect. If I had it to do over
again, I'd think this one through a bit more & take the time to try
something else. Not having that option though I think this one
will fall under the "I think I'll leave it because I'll probably do
more damage if I try to do it over".
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