Friday, September 12, 2014

Tools Arrive & Toolbox construction begins - 7.0hrs

The tools came to the door!!! Yeah! Took inventory and laid everything out. Planetools.com has a very nice kit and I was really pleased with every piece. Everything came out of the plastic and had a good wipe to get the tool oil off.  I didn't waste any time. I started the toolbox project and everything was falling nicely into place. The clecos when on, the holes where lining up. The plans were a bit difficult to follow and I choose to assemble the pieces in a bit different order. By the end, I had a perfect tool box! I was feeling really confident. Then I began to rivet.....this is where everything went south. I tried the pneumatic squeezer first, things went much better when i found that i could tease the trigger and close the gap to make sure that the squeezer was on the rivets square. But then I pulled out the rivet gun....and made a real mess of the toolbox. I found it difficult to hold the gun against the work, while holding the bucking bar. then when I pull the trigger everything seemed to jump all over the place. I had to drill out about 5 or 6 rivets, a lot of rivets were not nice and square. I can see that I am going to need a lot of practice with the gun.