Rivet Size

[Roland Kriening]

If you have oversized a rivet hole, is the normal practice to insert a 5/32
cherry rivet, or to drill out to the even bigger 3/16. I noticed on a couple
of other builds that the replacement rivet was smaller than 3/16 but had to
be larger than 1/8. Decided to replace the fus 26 with .032 so had to drill
out all the rivets... now left with some oversized holes.

Roland
R56







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[bransom]

One can also get 5/32 Avex rivets. A little harder to find. Some kind soul on
this list provided some to me a long time back. Happy to say I've needed
very few. On drilling out, I often use a snap punch to get the center out
after drilling off the head. And in many cases, we really aren't working with a
closed system yet and can get a pair of pliers on the inside mandrel.

Very good work tho, that you're paying attention to getting a full rivet into
the re-drilled holes.

I haven't bought from these guys --
http://www.crawfordproducts.com/avex.htm -- but worth noting here or
similar the max hole size.

Cheers,
-Ben/ 496R

On 7/2/2010 7:11 PM, kriening@rogers.com wrote to rebel-builders:

If you have oversized a rivet hole, is the normal practice to insert a 5/32
cherry rivet, or to drill out to the even bigger 3/16. I noticed on a couple
of other builds that the replacement rivet was smaller than 3/16 but had to
be larger than 1/8. Decided to replace the fus 26 with .032 so had to drill
out all the rivets... now left with some oversized holes.

Roland
R56

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