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May 17, 2022 2 Much easier time with rivnuts Category: Fuselage
More rivnuts to pull in the fuselage of the plane. I still needed to drill each one out a little for the M4 rivnuts, and it took me a while to make sure I was getting them all (needed to count the rivnuts in each part and how many parts - it would have been easier if I was doing them a piece at a time, but these were all already installed).

I'm not sure why the quickbuild kit doesn't have the rivnuts already installed, or why it has some installed but not others, but at least this set of 30 were easy. I only needed to use the hand rivnut puller for the two edges over the main landing gear.

I used some Loctite 277 to help keep the Rivnuts from spinning. That's the red stuff you see in the pictures. The paper towel looks like I bled all over the place and, working with sheet metal, it's not a bad assumption to think I did, but it is just from me wiping excess Loctite off of the rivnuts and off of the rivnut pullers.

Also, it is a good time for me to reflect that it took about 2 hours to pull the 30 rivnuts. Sure, I could have done the same number of pulled rivets in about 15 minutes. But, if I were using solid rivets, that probably would have been all day. Thanks, Sling, for not making us use solid rivets!!!


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