The aft top fuselage skin is ready to be riveted, but there is one skin rivet that's giving me problems.
This skin rivet is directly over the F- 707B angle clip shown on drawing 26, detail C and there is no way to buck this rivet..
In my frustration I compounded the problem by drilling out the skin rivet hole to ⅛" thinking I would install a Cherry rivet but the Cherry rivet hits the angle clip well before seating. I relived the angle clip some with jewelers files to see if that would give me room for the cherry rivet to seat but I stopped before relieving too much material.
The obvious solutions is to drill out the AN470AD4-5 rivets that hold the clip and rib to the F-707 bulkhead and reinstall after the skin rivet is bucked.
BUT, I'm afraid of screwing up the AN470AD4-5 when reinstalling. These were obviously originally installed without the top skin on from F-707 aft. The squeezer will not fit up there with skins on and one would have to use an offset rivet driver to buck the -4's and I have had mixed luck with those offsets....
Soooo....How important is this one little skin rivet? Not very I assume.
Any Ideas??
This skin rivet is directly over the F- 707B angle clip shown on drawing 26, detail C and there is no way to buck this rivet..
In my frustration I compounded the problem by drilling out the skin rivet hole to ⅛" thinking I would install a Cherry rivet but the Cherry rivet hits the angle clip well before seating. I relived the angle clip some with jewelers files to see if that would give me room for the cherry rivet to seat but I stopped before relieving too much material.
The obvious solutions is to drill out the AN470AD4-5 rivets that hold the clip and rib to the F-707 bulkhead and reinstall after the skin rivet is bucked.
BUT, I'm afraid of screwing up the AN470AD4-5 when reinstalling. These were obviously originally installed without the top skin on from F-707 aft. The squeezer will not fit up there with skins on and one would have to use an offset rivet driver to buck the -4's and I have had mixed luck with those offsets....
Soooo....How important is this one little skin rivet? Not very I assume.
Any Ideas??