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From the ground up ... question about riveting
I was watching "From the Ground Up" on Discovery Wings, specifically I paid
attention to the episode where the rivet the skin on one of the wings of the aircraft. in order to rivet the skin to the aircraft they use solid rivets, a rivet gun and a "bucking bar" (did I get that right?). The rivet is pounded by the gun on the outside while on the inside the bucking bar bounces against the other end of the rivet flattening it against the inside hole. Cool. It took 3 people to do that: 1 to handle the gun, 1 to keep the skin "bent up" while the other was keeping the bucking bar against the rivet. You could reduce that to 2 people if you have the person handling the bucking bar also bending the skin up. My question is this (to you more experienced metal-airplane-builder folks): is it possible to do this "solo"? From the looks of it the answer is a big resounding NO. I can't imagine anyone other than a contortionist with 4 arms handling the gun, the bucking bar and keeping the wing skin out of the way and doing a good job at it at the same time. Right? -- Marco Rispoli - NJ, USA / PP-ASEL My on-line aviation community - http://www.thepilotlounge.com |
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