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AZFlyer

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
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Location: Prescott, AZ

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 10:08 am Post subject: 601 XL, Front floor skin-Riveting

List,



Am getting close to riveting the front floor skin with all it's various stiffeners and attachments, so my question is:  Do I turn the fuselage over to do the riveting or work on my back underneath the fuse?



What have others done?  Seems to me that turning it over is the easy way.



Thanks,

Mike

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chris Sinfield

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Location: Sydney Australia

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:08 pm Post subject: Re: 601 XL, Front floor skin-Riveting

I did mine as a section upside down then turned it over and joined it up to the gear channel once it was done and just did those last ones on my back



Chris

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Rick.Beckman(at)atk.com
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:25 pm Post subject: 601 XL, Front floor skin-Riveting

Am getting close to riveting the front floor skin with all it's various

stiffeners and attachments, so my question is:  Do I turn the fuselage

over to do the riveting or work on my back underneath the fuse?

	Hey, Mike!  It's just like a big aluminum canoe at this point,

so turn it over! Get a little help so as not to bend anything. Makes

life soooo much easier. 

			Happy Building!!

				Rick from the Eastern Jackson County

Swamps!!

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dredmoody(at)cox.net
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Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:56 pm Post subject: 601 XL, Front floor skin-Riveting

You should have the whole mess up on some sort of supports (saw horses?) jigged and shimmed to the prescribed level or angles before you start pulling rivets. That way you don't incorporate any twist or improper relationships of parts. I found that working on a creepr on my back works well under the plane. They aren't terribly expensive and you will use it as long as you have a plane to work on.



Dred



---- AZFlyer <millrML(at)AOL.com> wrote: 

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 List,

 

 Am getting close to riveting the front floor skin with all it's various stiffeners and attachments, so my question is:  Do I turn the fuselage over to do the riveting or work on my back underneath the fuse?

 

 What have others done?  Seems to me that turning it over is the easy way.

 

 Thanks,

 Mike

 

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 601 XL, 3300, Dynon

 

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