Vertical Stab tip rib end rivets

I'm about an hour from completion of the vertical stab (yahoo!!)

Any tips on how to set the two forward-most rivets on the skinny curve end of the VS? It's where the tip rib meets the curve in the leading edge of the VS tip.

I have 4 bucking bars, and none of them will quite fit into that space. My squeezer doesn't quite get in there far enough to line up straight. I don't like the idea of hogging off a sizable chuck of the yoke on the squeezer on a grinder.

How have others tackled these two tight fit rivets?

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6Jv30EPp4wATW1GeTdiOW9jSjQ

Thanks,

Chris
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Mk 319bs pop rivet is the practical answer. A dab of filler and nobody else will know.

There is no downside.

Squeezing tight rivets.

I bought the smallest yoke and ground down the outside edge. Then there is a little elastic play in the flanges. So you can get the yoke in there and squeeze them. You can see it here.

http://www.mykitlog.com/users/display_log.php?user=sglynn&project=607&category=3657&log=63263&row=65

No Pop Rivets (LOL)

Sounds good, I'll see if Cleveland Tools has an appropriate yoke. I am not a purist, but probably close to a perfectionist and I'm not willing to concede defeat yet

Thanks for all the input as usual!!

The network at work doesn't let me see your pictures but something I've read on this site somewhere is you may be able to back-rivet it by laying the end of a cold chisel (or other thin, flat steel) on the rivet tail, raising the other end of the steel to act as fulcrum, and use the rivet gun on the steel.

Cheers,

good idea

Ah, yes, somewhere in my initial reading/research I had seen or heard of that technique. It hadn't occurred to me. Thanks for jogging the memory! That should work. Those #3 rivets squish up pretty readily ;-)

challinan said:

Ah, yes, somewhere in my initial reading/research I had seen or heard of that technique. It hadn't occurred to me. Thanks for jogging the memory! That should work. Those #3 rivets squish up pretty readily ;-)

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Check out this video on the technique.

http://www.eaavideo.org/video.aspx?v=5337092001

Ah, thanks so much. It wouldn't hurt for me to go back and re-watch all those videos now that I know a thing or 2 LOL.