Thank you for the great video! One warning, NEVER put your fingers or thumbs between the dies on your pneumatic C squeezer with air on. Treat it like a loaded gun. When changing or adjusting dies REMOVE THE AIR SOURCE FIRST. Build safe my friends.
I’ve built basically my whole rv-14A at this point and I bought a second hand toolkit that came with a 3x rivet gun. No major complaints it works for everything but if I had it to do all over again I might go with a 2X as Vic mentioned just because I’m thinking it might have prevented a couple of the smiles in the build over time.
awesome vid, thanks.... quick question, if our paint shop is going to prep, etch, clean, and alodine the aluminum in the future, is it worth the effort to fill in little imperfections with the epoxy filler? Curious your thoughts.
G,day from Sydney Australia. Some great advice, especially keeping current with service bulletins. Q1. What is the purpose of dimpling the aluminium surface of spars, ribs and stringers? Would I just make a rivet spacer jig for perimeter and inside spacing? 🌏🇦🇺
the skins are dimpled so you either have to dimple or countersink the underlying structure. countersinking requires a minimum thickness of the underlying structure.
Hi Vic - question unrelated to this video - what is the black “trim” used around the wind screens of your current RV10? Is it a bead of silicone caulk or piper black tar tape???
Thank you for the great video!
One warning, NEVER put your fingers or thumbs between the dies on your pneumatic C squeezer with air on. Treat it like a loaded gun. When changing or adjusting dies REMOVE THE AIR SOURCE FIRST.
Build safe my friends.
I’ve built basically my whole rv-14A at this point and I bought a second hand toolkit that came with a 3x rivet gun. No major complaints it works for everything but if I had it to do all over again I might go with a 2X as Vic mentioned just because I’m thinking it might have prevented a couple of the smiles in the build over time.
Thanks Vic. Good stuff.
awesome vid, thanks.... quick question, if our paint shop is going to prep, etch, clean, and alodine the aluminum in the future, is it worth the effort to fill in little imperfections with the epoxy filler? Curious your thoughts.
I would ask the paint shop
G,day from Sydney Australia. Some great advice, especially keeping current with service bulletins.
Q1. What is the purpose of dimpling the aluminium surface of spars, ribs and stringers?
Would I just make a rivet spacer jig for perimeter and inside spacing?
🌏🇦🇺
the skins are dimpled so you either have to dimple or countersink the underlying structure. countersinking requires a minimum thickness of the underlying structure.
Hi Vic - question unrelated to this video - what is the black “trim” used around the wind screens of your current RV10? Is it a bead of silicone caulk or piper black tar tape???
you can use either. even a bead of black sika flex will work.