Shawn Li's RV-7 Construction Log

06-21-2012: 2 hrs

I had to ask my dad to help on riveting the bottom rivets. There is no way I can do it by myself. He  is afraid of doing damage to the skin or joint because we had to drill a couple of rivets (and enlarged the holes) when he helped a few days ago. I had to convince him that it is ok to have some bad rivets (even though I really don't want them). He finally agreed to help, and it went ok, mostly. I still had to drill 2 rivets out, out of 30-40, which is not bad. Overall, the rivet quality is ok, but not perfect. Especially when looking close, the rivet head had some mark due to the crack on the tungsten bucking bar. I can't grind the crack mark off the bar, so everything I use the tungsten bar the crack mark is copied to the rivet head. I don't think it is an issue, but it just annoys me lot.

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