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I need some suggestions for riveting the two rivets which are inside the counterbalance arms and going through the hinge. I haven't tried it yet, but my manual hand rivet gun will be at a roughly 45 degree angle and I can't see that being a very successful pulled rivet.

I saw one other picture on this forum of the same area and it appears that builder only had one rivet right on the middle of the c/b arms, making it an easy rivet job. So, this would be a compromise in strength to that area. What have others done?

I haven't mastered posting pictures yet to this forum, but there is a picture on my expercraft log site. Just google Light Earth Aviation to get there.
Thanks

Darrick

This just reminded me that these were probably the most difficult rivets to get the gun into.

I made up some small steel wedges with a hole just large enough for the mandrel nail of the rivet to pass through. Rough dimensions were about 10mm x 10mm x 3 or 4mm thick on the high side ground down to a point on the other side.

The wedge allows the gun to be at an angle, and for rivet to sit flat against the metal being riveted. I used this method everywhere it was difficult to get the rivet in. There are other ways but they normally involve modifying the rivet gun.

Steve
Sonex 892

This worked like a charm for me http://www.eaavideo.org/video.aspx?v=60653678001
Mike