cdeerinck
Well Known Member
Two questions here:
1) Does anyone know why the plans call for two different rivets as indicated below by the purple arrows? This is for the RV-8 top skin over the avionics and luggage areas. The row that attaches the skin to the firewall calls for 3-5 rivets, but those two call for 3-4 rivets. The material is the same thickness throughout. I can't for the life of me figure out why.
2) I need to get some Cherrymax rivets for some of the AN426AD3-6 and AN426AD3-8 rivets on the sides, given that I don't have fairy hands. It seems there are three product lines that might do the job: CR1122's (Self-Plugging Rivets), CR9116's (MS Rivets), or CR264CS's (Pull thru nut plate rivets). I am not sure which makes the most sense, and I can't seem to find suppliers for the -3-06 and -3-08 sizes. Can anyone help me out?
I am just about done with the avionics, so my next job is to pull them all out, rivet this skin, then put them all back in. Yay!
1) Does anyone know why the plans call for two different rivets as indicated below by the purple arrows? This is for the RV-8 top skin over the avionics and luggage areas. The row that attaches the skin to the firewall calls for 3-5 rivets, but those two call for 3-4 rivets. The material is the same thickness throughout. I can't for the life of me figure out why.
2) I need to get some Cherrymax rivets for some of the AN426AD3-6 and AN426AD3-8 rivets on the sides, given that I don't have fairy hands. It seems there are three product lines that might do the job: CR1122's (Self-Plugging Rivets), CR9116's (MS Rivets), or CR264CS's (Pull thru nut plate rivets). I am not sure which makes the most sense, and I can't seem to find suppliers for the -3-06 and -3-08 sizes. Can anyone help me out?
I am just about done with the avionics, so my next job is to pull them all out, rivet this skin, then put them all back in. Yay!