cleco wear?
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Subject: cleco wear?
From: "Dan Morehouse" <dan.morehouse@netos.com>
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Hello!
About the spring gear and float fix upgrades: I'm right in that spot where
I'm just replacing the rolled and tapered corners and the side panels to
..032. Now I see there may be some more replacements concerning the spring
gear, my next section of construction.
During the construction I try to wait until I'm sure I'm finished with a
section before I prime and rivet. That saves some redrilling but also I'm
concerned about the wear the holes get when they are left with not so strong
or tight fitting clecos. Especially if the holes are #30. I end up kicking
or otherwise disturbing the clecos and wonder if I'm actually doing more
harm than good by postponing riveting. There is also the question of proper
orientation using the clecos. I can imagine the plane not fitting together
as well with 20,000 clecos before the first rivet is pulled compared to a
plane riveted promptly every step of the way.
So what I've done to avoid the cleco wear and also minimize redrilling out
the rivets is to rivet every fourth or fifth rivet to be drilled out later.
I'm doing this in the cabin side panels and bottom corner areas close to the
carrythroughs, since the spring gear fix will probably have me dismantle
some of these pieces anyway.
What are your thoughts about this? Also Bijan formerly of MAM said that 1/8"
rivets being drilled out technically should be replaced with 5/32" rivets.
Wouldn't the little extra large hole caused by the drilling out be filled
nicely with the expanded rivet of the same size?
Take it easy,
Dan
R280
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Hello!
About the spring gear and float fix upgrades: I'm right in that spot where
I'm just replacing the rolled and tapered corners and the side panels to
..032. Now I see there may be some more replacements concerning the spring
gear, my next section of construction.
During the construction I try to wait until I'm sure I'm finished with a
section before I prime and rivet. That saves some redrilling but also I'm
concerned about the wear the holes get when they are left with not so strong
or tight fitting clecos. Especially if the holes are #30. I end up kicking
or otherwise disturbing the clecos and wonder if I'm actually doing more
harm than good by postponing riveting. There is also the question of proper
orientation using the clecos. I can imagine the plane not fitting together
as well with 20,000 clecos before the first rivet is pulled compared to a
plane riveted promptly every step of the way.
So what I've done to avoid the cleco wear and also minimize redrilling out
the rivets is to rivet every fourth or fifth rivet to be drilled out later.
I'm doing this in the cabin side panels and bottom corner areas close to the
carrythroughs, since the spring gear fix will probably have me dismantle
some of these pieces anyway.
What are your thoughts about this? Also Bijan formerly of MAM said that 1/8"
rivets being drilled out technically should be replaced with 5/32" rivets.
Wouldn't the little extra large hole caused by the drilling out be filled
nicely with the expanded rivet of the same size?
Take it easy,
Dan
R280
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