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Rivet spacing question

DougRDU

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This is my first "help" post from my first build so any helpful information would be greatly appreciated!

In drilling the skin for my horizontal stab leading edge, my measurements got off a touch and now I have a #50 hole in the skin where it appears it will be too close to the flange radius of the rib to set an AD-3 rivet. In the second picture, the rib flange in on the left (sorry about the pic rotation, not sure how to fix that) To be clear, at this point I have NOT drilled the spar or web in this location.

The arrows are pointing to where I think I would be okay to put rivets and then fill the #50 hole in the skin later...but I decided I had better ask for opinions before moving forward.
 

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Edge distance

I would agree. The #50 hole is close and since it's only a skin hole, I like your solution.
 
I have a misplaced hole like that in my VS. I left it unfilled, just so my plane would have one flaw :D
 
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