Why so many rivets?

Roger:

My Super II FT has over 200 individual pieces of cloth in the firewall
bulkhead for the bulkhead itself, the engine mount reinforcements,
reinforcing ribs, etc.


BJC

"Roger" wrote in message
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On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 12:31:03 -0600, "MJC" wrote:

... or it that's a "problem" for you, do what I did.
RV7-A Quickbuild kit. Poof; lot's less rivets :-)

MJC

"Brian Sponcil" wrote in message
...
I'm currently considering embarking on an RV project and after checking
out
a few in our local EAA chapter I ran across a seemingly curious fact. I
recall the builders telling me that their RV kits have around 10,000
rivets.
Compared to a Piper Comanche at 3,714 and a Warrior at 1,785 that's a
heck
of a lot of rivets.

You could go glass!
I'd guess on the G-III doing just the 96 individual lay-ups for the
engine mount attach point, reinforcements probably took as long as
setting those 10,000 rivets. (It seemed longer)


So the question is, why so many???

Strength.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com


-Brian
N33431