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I was pleased to see that my order from Van's finally arrived. This shipped on 4/16/09
via priority mail, yet it took four (business) days to arrive...not much of a priority apparently. :-(
Note the bag of AN470AD4-22 rivets. I had previouly ordered .1 lb and got a total of
four rivets. This time I ordered .2 lb and got a whole bag full of them. Hrm.
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First task for the night was to remove the nutplates, drill the screw holes up to #19, and reinstall
the nutplates.
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These little brackets got nutplates installed. When I drilled and deburred these parts long ago, I
countersunk the rivet holes. If I had it to do over again, I think I would dimple the holes. I prefer
the look of dimpled holes better.
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These gussets that go between the lower firewall weldments and the vertical firewall stiffeners
also got one nutplate each.
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I decided to assemble the elevator bellcrank. Easy stuff. :-)
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Then it was time to re-rivet the spacer blocks on the center section.
The problem, however, is that these rivets are too large to be squeezed, so they
need to be driven / bucked. Kerin was in full pumpkin mode on the sofa by this
time, so she wasn't going to be able to help, so how was I going to buck these guys.
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This little wood template is what I came up with to prevent my gun from sliding around too
much. I thought this would work out pretty well...
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But I ended up boogering up the rivets again. Gah, this is frustrating. Four freakin'
rivets to install and I can't seem to get 'em done. I drilled these out for the third
time and called it a night. I'll figure out what to do tomorrow.
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