Metal Magic: Removing Bad Rivets

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3 жыл бұрын

KITPLANES editor at large Paul Dye continues our Metal Magic series with a look at how to properly remove bad or damaged rivets. Hint: You'll probably do this a lot over the course of an airplane project, so it's worth practicing before you need to extract bad universal-head or countersunk rivets in anger.
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@TheMarcball 2 жыл бұрын

Now that was great. loved watching the skilled man at work, fixing bad rivets. And I loke the idea of getting an RV "Toolbox practice kit" and setting rivets then drilling all of them out, and setting them again.

@michaeljohn8905 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this. Great stuff I’m a 3 year apprentice A&P and student pilot .Really looking forward to taking my tests soon. This is great quick review.

@jeffluckey8530 2 жыл бұрын

Paul - I'd like to see some guidance on less-than-perfect rivets and when a rivet needs to be replaced. I recently read something (might have been in AC-43 or maybe Van's instructions) that suggested that even though a rivet may not be "textbook perfect" it will still probably provide 80-90% of its design strength. And since the process of drilling-out can be less that perfect (egged holes, close to edges, etc.), it is sometimes better to leave a "messed-up" rivet alone. Perhaps you could demonstrate with examples of some varying degree of messed-up rivets and show us which ones you'd re-do and which ones would be "good enough". Thanks.

@popdesigner01

Good video Flight!

@cheyennequintintaylorsr.9498 2 жыл бұрын

Nice tutorial

@user-sh4vc7sd5x

I love you thank you <3

@CalitranoN

my guitar case hinges have rivets and I have broken drill bits and whatever you call that punch, they break in half... you can't drill a round surface everything. just slips right off, been working this for weeks now...