Re: Pre-assembled Main Spar
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 12:11 am
Rynoth wrote:So all told, I personally would say the pre-built option saves 70 hours and a LOT of mundane grunt work. The spars were the least "fun" to build for me yet, but honestly no less satisfying to complete. The solid riveting itself has been less than 15 hours, but it's definitely the most taxing work.
My kit came with the factory built spars (have the initials "JTM" on them) and that certainly made life easier.
Here is a rivet setting tool designed by Dan Weseman of Panther fame:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frLcrJvSSa4
Not sure how difficult it would be to build something similar. Hand operated hydraulic pumps are available at various prices:
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywor ... heohm35p_b
FWIW,
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