---------------------------------------------------------- RV6-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Tue 05/16/06: 3 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 05:17 PM - drilling out rivets (J. Brunke) 2. 07:32 PM - Re: drilling out rivets (James Baldwin) 3. 10:26 PM - Re: drilling out rivets (J. Brunke) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 05:17:59 PM PST US From: "J. Brunke" Subject: RV6-List: drilling out rivets --> RV6-List message posted by: "J. Brunke" Dear Listers, I've been following this list for a long time and know I'll see some good replys. I just started a -7 tail kit. Obviously drilling out rivets becomes part of the process. There is a tool called a "multi-master" made by Fein. It is usually used in woodworking but I tried using it as a rivet removal tool on a test piece that I put together. The multi-master is usually used for sanding, but comes with cutting tools. The cutting tool can lie flat on a surface and make a cut to material sticking up from that flat surface such as a shop head on a rivet. I was able to cut through the shop head very easily and used a punch to remove the rest of the rivet. It was quick and I didn't have to worry about enlarging the drilled hole. I don't think it would work well where the hole was dimpled, but did well on a flat surface. My question is to ask anyone to tell me what is wrong with using this procedure? I welcome any comments. Thanks, John Brunke ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 07:32:48 PM PST US From: James Baldwin Subject: Re: RV6-List: drilling out rivets --> RV6-List message posted by: James Baldwin Hey John - When a rivet is driven, it expands to fill the dimension, radially, of the installed hole. Sometimes this leads to a little expansion of the native material, but "usually" it is not very much. It "usually" works to install a similar size rivet to re-rivet the pieces together again, especially if the original rivet was removed accurately. This is why edge distance is one of the considerations in rivet pattern layout. My question is: where do you get the tool you describe? Thanks. JBB J. Brunke wrote: > --> RV6-List message posted by: "J. Brunke" > > Dear Listers, > > I've been following this list for a long time and know I'll see some > good replys. > > I just started a -7 tail kit. Obviously drilling out rivets becomes > part of the process. > > There is a tool called a "multi-master" made by Fein. It is usually > used in woodworking but I > tried using it as a rivet removal tool on a test piece that I put > together. The multi-master is usually used > for sanding, but comes with cutting tools. The cutting tool can lie > flat on a surface and make a cut to > material sticking up from that flat surface such as a shop head on a > rivet. I was able to cut through the > shop head very easily and used a punch to remove the rest of the > rivet. It was quick and I didn't have to > worry about enlarging the drilled hole. I don't think it would work > well where the hole was dimpled, but > did well on a flat surface. > > My question is to ask anyone to tell me what is wrong with using this > procedure? I welcome any comments. > > Thanks, > John Brunke > > > http://www.matronics.com/Navigator?RV6-List > http://wiki.matronics.com > > ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 10:26:51 PM PST US From: "J. Brunke" Subject: Re: RV6-List: drilling out rivets --> RV6-List message posted by: "J. Brunke" JBB, The Fein web site can be found through a search engine. I checked and the web site for the multimaster is: www.fein.de/corp/de/en/multimaster/index.html Hopefully if I did that right, you can just click on that and it should take you to it. My wife bought this for me for Christmas a few years ago. I didn't think I would use it, but it has a fair amount of versitility. Today when I was trying to figure out the "drill out" situation, I never thought the Fein would work as well as it did. Good luck, John ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Baldwin" Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:30 PM Subject: Re: RV6-List: drilling out rivets > --> RV6-List message posted by: James Baldwin > > Hey John - > When a rivet is driven, it expands to fill the dimension, radially, of the > installed hole. Sometimes this leads to a little expansion of the native > material, but "usually" it is not very much. It "usually" works to > install a similar size rivet to re-rivet the pieces together again, > especially if the original rivet was removed accurately. This is why edge > distance is one of the considerations in rivet pattern layout. My > question is: where do you get the tool you describe? Thanks. JBB > > J. Brunke wrote: >> --> RV6-List message posted by: "J. Brunke" >> >> Dear Listers, >> >> I've been following this list for a long time and know I'll see some good >> replys. >> >> I just started a -7 tail kit. Obviously drilling out rivets becomes part >> of the process. >> >> There is a tool called a "multi-master" made by Fein. It is usually >> used in woodworking but I >> tried using it as a rivet removal tool on a test piece that I put >> together. The multi-master is usually used >> for sanding, but comes with cutting tools. The cutting tool can lie >> flat on a surface and make a cut to >> material sticking up from that flat surface such as a shop head on a >> rivet. I was able to cut through the >> shop head very easily and used a punch to remove the rest of the rivet. >> It was quick and I didn't have to >> worry about enlarging the drilled hole. I don't think it would work well >> where the hole was dimpled, but >> did well on a flat surface. >> >> My question is to ask anyone to tell me what is wrong with using this >> procedure? I welcome any comments. >> >> Thanks, >> John Brunke >> >> >> >> http://www.matronics.com/Navigator?RV6-List >> http://wiki.matronics.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > http://www.matronics.com/Navigator?RV6-List > http://wiki.matronics.com > > >