RE: >We attach the aileron hinges with 8-32 blind nuts. These nuts are held in >place with rivets. All the stress, when attached, is on the nut, not on the >rivet. >Daniel R. Heath - Columbia, SC +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++=
Dan, What are you riveting the blind nuts to, the 1/4" spruce? If so, what is the technique for using a rivet in wood? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Larry and others, I have no epoxy and no flox. My procedure is to drill a hole the size of the rivet to line up with the hole in the blind nut. Cut a 100 degree bevel in the wood side to match the bevel of the rivet. Insert the rivet and knock the crap out of the end that goes through the blind nut while bracing the wood end on my anvil. Now, where it is not appropriate to knock the crap out of the end of the rivet, I just squeeze it with my vice grips, very gently. How's that? I am not saying that this is the right way, it is only a way, and it is the way that I have always done it. N64KR Daniel R. Heath - Columbia, SC da...@kr-builder.org See you in Red Oak - 2003 See our KR at http://KR-Builder.org - Click on the pic See our EAA Chapter 242 at http://EAA242.org
