All
of the ribs have a couple of tooling holes in them. These holes
in the end ribs need to be plugged (to keep the fuel in the
tank… makes sense eh!). The plans mention fashioning some
small plates and gluing them over these holes. However, its quite
common to fill them with AD6 rivets since they fit the holes just about
perfectly! So, out came the squeezer, and the appropriate
dies. Now, as far as yokes for the squeezer go, all we have are a
4" no hole yoke, and a 3" longeron yoke. So, we used the longeron
yoke. I had to cut the AD6 rivets down to a workable length since
they were pretty long. I cut them so they were the standard
1.5xDiameter, but after trying to squeeze a few, I decided this was not
needed. These rivets are not structural, and it turns out the
squeezer, even at 110psi, was having trouble setting these things... I
could only squeeze a little, readjust, squeeze a bit more, readjust one
more time, and then squeeze one last time. Once I was on this
last squeeze it really looked as if my yoke was bending :O So
anyway, after not really liking the way things were going and since it
was getting late, I decided to stop after only doing 6.
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