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I made a rather complete post on this subject on Saturday or Sunday and it never showed up, so I will make this brief. I used my DIENQ as suggested by Tony on a sheet of .025 6061 T6 that I purchased for the purpose of doing this test. I drilled thru two strips of the material, 23 holes, with #40. I then used the "swizzle" deburring tool to deburr all holes because I don't have a #40 burraway. I then dimpled all the holes in each sheet, clecoed every other hole with #40 and updrilled to #30 with a drill bit. I thought that I would then have to deburr again, but it was not needed. I then installed the -42 rivets with zero proud stems. I do not think the -42 look as good as the -43, but since they are what is called for in the plans, I will use them unless I run into proud stems in real life. I am including a couple of pics and hope this post makes it.

Thanks Mike,

Really appreciate you sharing your test results and insights. Also, good description of how and why to set the air pressure on the pneumatic rivet puller (i.e. you want to pull the stem slowly so it properly sets the rivet before breaking the stem).

I just ordered a slew of low-profile, dome-head, stainless-body, stainless-shank rivets to test:

http://www.rivetsonline.com/stainless-s ... -head.html

haven't made any decisions yet, but I'll post my impressions / test results in a few weeks.

Bob Jacoby
Panther SN: 0018
Jacksonville, FL