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Thanks Steve,
I have got several places on the Aztec cowl mod STC that will require riveting
inside of channels, so I know I will need a longeron type yoke. I was
wondering what would be problem using the longeron yoke to squeeze the
remaining rivets.
Cool about the B-17. My family and I were able to hook up with the Honeck's
over at OSH a few weeks ago, just for a quick day of touring the museum and
lunch at Friar Tucks.
New "mega-fence" around the North 40 and still no new control tower.
Jim
"Steve A" <stevea2@comcast.Rem0ve.Th1s.net> wrote in message
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> Jim Burns wrote:
> > If you have adequate room to work, is there any disadvantage of using a
> > larger than necessary yoke?
> >
> > If I am purchasing additional yokes, why wouldn't I buy
> > a yoke that is capable of not only doing specialty work, but normal flat
> > work in areas where clearance is not a factor?
>
> Jim,
>
> The reasons to use the smallest yoke possible are: 1. clearance from
> some other part of the structure. 2. deeper yokes flex more when
> squeezing a rivet. This can make it more difficult to set the rivet
> without bending it, usually when setting short ones in thin material.
> 3. larger yokes are heavier, adding to the squeezer weight that must be
> held steady while setting the rivet. The pneumatic squeezer body is
> already quite a chunk to hold steady.
>
> From an RV builder's experience: Start with what you need to do the
> job at hand, and buy yokes as needed (unless you have a lot of $$
> burning a hole in your pocket, and empty drawers in the tool box. :-)
> ). Some tool vendors make yokes that are interchangeable between
> pneumatic and hand squeezers. I only have a hand squeezer with a 1"
> thin nose, 1.5", and 3" yokes. My yokes will not fit a pneumatic
> squeezer. But, I am mostly through with riveting on the project. (OK, I
> confess to having an RV building buddy that has the full set of
> pneumatic squeezers and yokes. :-) But...I've some small hand
> squeezer parts that he doesn't have. The arrangement has come in handy
> at times.) Yes, owning a pneumatic setup would have made some jobs
> easier during building. On the other hand, most of the rivets on an RV
> are 3/32".....very easy to hand squeeze. 1/8" are tougher to hand
> squeeze, but there are fewer of them to deal with.
>
>
> Got to spend time in and around the EAA B-17, Aluminum Overcast while it
> was at Moffett Field this weekend!!!!
>
> Steve
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