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May 01, 2021 6 Starting to assemble the HS frame Category: Empennage
We are finally putting rivets to spars and ribs! I got Isabel in the act and she loved the rivet gun. I had to slow her down a little so she didn't end up putting a bunch of rivets in we didn't need (or want!) yet. We got both spars assembled and all the ribs Cleco'd in.

Ran into a problem with the rivet gun, though. While it works great for the 4mm rivets, it seems to be slipping off the mandrel for the 3.2mm rivets. I have an e-maiul into Stanley about their Proset XT2 to see if I need to replace the jaws, lubricate them better, or something else. The 3.2mm rivets are easier to pull by hand than the 4mm ones are, but my goal is to pull NONE of them by hand!


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