Sunday, September 14, 2014

Still learning

Learning lessons today. Spent some time on the practice project. All in all it turned out well. But not as good as it needs to be. I counter-sunk the number #30 holes in the aluminium angle. They were perfect if I used the 426AD4-4 rivets, but when I put the 0.040 dimpled skin over top the angle... Skin does not sit flush on the angle because the angle countersink was not deep enough. Makes perfect sense now that I think about it, but I realized it after I riveted. I also played with the air settings on the gun and found that lower settings work so much better that the higher settings I was using. I also discovered why the flush rivets do not sit quite so flush with the skin. My swivel flush set has a rubber ring around it which sits proud of the skin. Unless I press really hard with the gun, there is a possibility that the rivet is driven with its head slightly proud of the skin. I also noticed that I scratched the head of my flush set so now each flush rivet is being marred. After reading up on the forums, I see that you can polish the flush rivet set (one the rubber is removed). Did that and it turned out very nice!