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Excellent! I love it when things work like they should. Great job Jim! If you have any photos you can post that would be helpful too


Rachel

The rivet squeezer if fairly quick to use if you have prepared your workbench ahead of time. I screwed blocks to my workbench to hold the squeezer body from moving and also used blocks to hold the feet of the actuator. With roller stands at both ends of the workbench, the spar assembly rolls through easy. I was able to rivet both spars in 4 hours total. The most time of any aspect was flipping the spars to get to upper and lower spar cap rivets and fwd and backward for the countersunk rivets on the inboard ends.

Spar Rivet Squeezer Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... LcrJvSSa4​

Posted by Paul Salter on 12/17/2013
I finished the other spar tonight, a total of about 7 hours for both. The first row of rivets on one spar took about 3 hours. I tried different techniques the first night, and this evening I did ​the other 3 rows in about 1 hour each. There is also about an hour of setup time that included putting the screws and bolts in the spar, and some additional temporary screws to hold the stack up together. The rivet squeezer works great, and makes it much easier. We will be adding some of the tips and techniques that I used to the builders manual. Bob and Buddy made some suggestions also, which I also used.