{"id":9515,"date":"2023-08-03T16:18:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T16:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/?page_id=9515"},"modified":"2023-08-05T20:39:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T20:39:16","slug":"august-2-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/?page_id=9515","title":{"rendered":"August 2, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/?page_id=9511\">[&lt;&lt;Prev]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/?page_id=9548\">[Next&gt;&gt;]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to rivet the rudder trailing edge. To get started, I removed the clecos that were holding the angle aluminum to the rudder. After that, I spent a ~2 hours cleaning the excess adhesive off the surface of the rudder and all the countersinks.<\/p>\n<p>I bought this special squeezer set from Cleveland Aircraft Tool. It&#8217;s supposed to make riveting of the trailing edge easier compared to the back rivet method. Honestly, I think the squeezer set performed average. The issue is that it would leave a shallow indentations on the rudder skin after squeezing. Basically the trailing edge would get squeezer out slightly, which left a superficial mark on the skin. It&#8217;s not terrible, but I was hoping this was going to be a little cleaner.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_1068-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9517\" src=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_1068-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_1068-768x1024.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_1068-225x300.jpeg 225w, http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_1068-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_1068-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_1068-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I started the riveting by squeezing every 10th rivet. To start, the rivets were only partially set. After riveting every 5th rivet, I filled in all the gaps with more rivets. After all rivets were partially installed, I squeezed every rivet a bit more until the shop head was flush with the skin.<\/p>\n<p>I abraded the trailing edge of the rudder to clean up the marks from the squeezer. After the trailing edge gets polished, I doubt anyone will be able to tell there was minor superficial damage.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_1077-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9553\" src=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_1077-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_1077-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_1077-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_1077-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_1077-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_1077-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/?page_id=9511\">[&lt;&lt;Prev]<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/?page_id=9548\">[Next&gt;&gt;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&lt;&lt;Prev]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/?page_id=9515\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  August 2, 2023<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9515","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9515"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9584,"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9515\/revisions\/9584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rv7aircraftlog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}