charlesmc
Member
We completed our audit of LCPs and we are just down to the fact that we have laser cut F-1048-L/R in our fuselage.
We are late in Section 29, so the F-1048-L/R are riveted into the firewall, bottom skin, forward floors (from the side), and forward spar.
I'm trying to get input on how to approach removal of these two parts and re-installation of punched parts.
Most rivets are accessible (more or less), but I'm concerned about the rivets where the heads are in-between the spars. It would be very difficult to get a drill in between the two spars to drill out the head. We really don't want to split the fuselage again at this point as that would involve gazillions of rivets that are on the side and bottom skins.
Since we now don't care about the LCPs that are coming out, for these specific rivets I was thinking about removing the tails of the rivet which are easier to access.
Does anyone have experience with grinding the tail off a rivet or using say an oscillating Dremel tool to saw the rivet tail off? Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Charles
We are late in Section 29, so the F-1048-L/R are riveted into the firewall, bottom skin, forward floors (from the side), and forward spar.
I'm trying to get input on how to approach removal of these two parts and re-installation of punched parts.
Most rivets are accessible (more or less), but I'm concerned about the rivets where the heads are in-between the spars. It would be very difficult to get a drill in between the two spars to drill out the head. We really don't want to split the fuselage again at this point as that would involve gazillions of rivets that are on the side and bottom skins.
Since we now don't care about the LCPs that are coming out, for these specific rivets I was thinking about removing the tails of the rivet which are easier to access.
Does anyone have experience with grinding the tail off a rivet or using say an oscillating Dremel tool to saw the rivet tail off? Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Charles