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Old 28th February 2014, 01:31 PM
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If you saw how planes are put together with rivets you would not get in one but I still do,need help obviously !
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Old 28th February 2014, 06:30 PM
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Something along the lines of this?
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Old 1st March 2014, 12:38 PM
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I don't like rivnuts, they have a horrible tendency of spinning with the bolt still in them

I ended up tacking the rivnuts to my chassis where they hold the nosecone on. The only other body part held on with them is the scuttle.
I used aluminium rivnuts, about 20 in the whole car. The alu thread is pretty soft, it has a tendency to catch if you're not too careful when threading in the bolt. That said, only one seized and spun irrecoverably. Oh well, converted to a stud with nut on the outside.

Also, I installed all of them without the special tool. I used a long M6 bolt with a nut on it, some washers, and a steel strip with a hole in it. I would thread the nut, washers, plate and rivnut on the bolt, insert the rivnut into its hole, clamp the plate to the chassis, then tighten the nut holding the bolt steady. The thread of 8.8 bolts and nuts would hold for installing 3-4 rivnuts before stripping, but that's ok. A stronger bolt would probably help.
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Old 1st March 2014, 06:09 PM
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Exactly Steve cleco heaven,but they use proper "rivets" .
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Old 10th March 2014, 05:37 PM
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Hi,
Now that I have cut the floor, I can come back on this thread.
I marked the drilling points on the ally plate, and it is clamped to the chassis.

But I was wondering, what is the right order ?
- drill
- unclamp
- Sikaflex
- rivets
or :
- Sikaflex
- clamp
- drill
- rivets

Thank you.
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Old 10th March 2014, 08:16 PM
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Hi, Drill all holes -unclamp- sikaflex- rivet, Cleco's are also very handy locating panels while drilling and fixing. Cheers Brendan.
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Old 10th March 2014, 08:24 PM
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You don't find many rivets in a wing it's 99.99% bolts.

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Old 10th March 2014, 10:25 PM
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You are joking of course rivets are used extensively throughout most aircraft both wing and fuz unless of course you are talking about composites and very modern aircraft .....if you are not joking then where do you get that figure from
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Option 1..
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Old 11th March 2014, 10:13 AM
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Only bolts in the wing hold spar to fuselage and elevator to wing and also
flaps,boatload of cherry rivets hold the important bits on.
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