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rstone4(at)hot.rr.com
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 11:19 am Post subject: Places hard to rivet

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      Has anyone ever  thought of just using a small (Same shaft diameter as the rivet) bolt, two  washers and a lock nut in place of the rivet.  I don't think there are very  many places where this problem will crop up therefore not much extra weight  will be added and the nut and bolt will be just as strong if not stronger than  the rivet.

  

 Bob Stone, Harker Heights, Tx

 ZodiacXL  DO NOT  ARCHIVE

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naumuk(at)alltel.net
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:32 pm Post subject: Places hard to rivet

This approach is in the archives.

 Bill Naumuk

HDS Fuselage

Townville, Pa

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p.mulwitz(at)worldnet.att
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:08 pm Post subject: Places hard to rivet

Bob,



 I prefer to use a modified riveter to squeeze into tight spaces.  This is not too hard to produce.  I just ground an angle of perhaps 30 degrees in the front of a riveter nose piece and then ground a hollow in the hole to make the rounded rivet head.  I only used this in a few places, so the cosmetic finish in the hole to form rivet heads didn't seem important.



 The tools I used for this were a belt grinder to make the bevel on the riveter nose piece and a Dremel tool with a round cutter and/or stone for the concave feature.



 

 It seems crazy to pull a rivet stem into a place where the stem must bend some 30 degrees to set the rivet.  Indeed it works just fine.



 

 One issue to consider when putting bolts in places hard to reach for riveting.  How hard will it be to inspect the bolts in the future to see they are properly torqued?



 Paul

 XL fuselage



 

 At 12:17 PM 9/25/2006, you wrote:

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		   Members,

      Has anyone ever thought of just using a small (Same shaft diameter as the rivet) bolt, two washers and a lock nut in place of the rivet.  I don't think there are very many places where this problem will crop up therefore not much extra weight will be added and the nut and bolt will be just as strong if not stronger than the rivet.

  

 Bob Stone, Harker Heights, Tx

 ZodiacXL  DO NOT ARCHIVE

 	
 

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