Richard Riley wrote:
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:18:20 GMT, "Stew Hicks"
wrote:

The question at hand has been well covered by the answers so far, you may be
interested in the 'reverse' of the pop vs. solid rivet question.
When I built my Zenith, CH200 from plans I decided, or maybe was talked into
doing the skins in solid flush rivets. In consulting with Chris, he said,
'use one dash smaller in solid rivets", therefore my skins are done in -3
and -4 solid rather than -4 and -5 Avex 'Pop' rivets. It doesn't make the
plane any stronger, or weaker, just different.
When I built the prototype CH801 I used all Avex Pop rivets everywhere
except the structure that called for solid rivets. All hand pulled by the
way and I never found hand pulling to be a particular chore. If the whole
plane was ready to rivet at once I can see where the power puller would be a
godsend but who has that many clecos?

There's no such thing as too many clecos. My wife bought me 500 of
each color a few years ago for my birthday.

If she feels the need to make another such gift point her my way.
I'm not proud, I'll accept the gift.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired