“No bird ever flew nonstop from New York to Tokyo, or raced 15 miles high at triple the speed of sound.                                                                                                   
  Birds do something else.   They do not conquer the air; they romance it..”


Peter Garrison

Jur's RV7 Aircraft Factory
3497 hours
and counting

It's rivetting time again ! Love it.

I started backrivetting the 4 smallest stiffeners on the right side skin of the rudder. Still encountering difficulties getting a good feeling if a rivet is well set , enough or not enough.

I keep with the advice Fred gave me... Gauge is more important then diameter. So I keep measyring on the height and secondary on the width.

Some pictures

 

I made a cut-out of my wooden matchdrillplate to build-in my steel plate. This works great for backrivetting.