Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations TugboatEng on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
rivets 3
- Thread starter planemech
- Start date
-
1
- #2
thruthefence
Aerospace
I've got "chapter & verse" somewhere in my "filing system", but a ballpark go/no-go method is to use a rivet set, eg a #4 set for a #4 AD rivet, and if the circumferential edge of the set touches the skin, when placed on the manufactured head, the rivet must be replaced.
In other words, with the set resting on the rivet head, 90 degrees to the skin surface, there should be clearance between the skin & the set.
If I get time I'll dig up the AC.
In other words, with the set resting on the rivet head, 90 degrees to the skin surface, there should be clearance between the skin & the set.
If I get time I'll dig up the AC.
-
2
- #3
johnSchwaner
Aerospace
Try MIL-R-47196 "Rivets, Buck Type, Preparation and Installation Of" Table II
Here is a link to a copy on my web site:
Here is a link to a copy on my web site:
thruthefence
Aerospace
Thanks, John; that's the doc I was referring to.
thruthefence
Aerospace
Great Resource,John; your work is much appreciated.
steve
steve
- Thread starter
- #9
thruthefence
Aerospace
This may qualify as an "Urban Legend", but it was told to me as the truth, and it was about an old local aviator, recently deceased.
Guy finally decides to get his ragged out old Piper Apache painted; takes it to a newly opened paint facility, and after a few weeks, the work is done, looks great, & he flys it home.
bunch of his old moss-back buddies come by the hangar to look at the work, and somebody notes how smooth the paint job is, like a corporate jet!! Well closer inspection showed that the rivets had been sanded down nearly flush during the stripping operation. The aircraft was in fact a write off, and the shop's insurance paid off, if you can believe it.
Good help is hard to find.
Guy finally decides to get his ragged out old Piper Apache painted; takes it to a newly opened paint facility, and after a few weeks, the work is done, looks great, & he flys it home.
bunch of his old moss-back buddies come by the hangar to look at the work, and somebody notes how smooth the paint job is, like a corporate jet!! Well closer inspection showed that the rivets had been sanded down nearly flush during the stripping operation. The aircraft was in fact a write off, and the shop's insurance paid off, if you can believe it.
Good help is hard to find.
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
- Question
- Locked
- Question