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F721 canopy decks. How to rivet?!

rsr3

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Hi everyone,

I’ve riveted on my canopy decks, all but the last few rivets circled in the photo are set. Access is too tight for even my small tungsten bucking bar to the last few. Anybody have any good ideas to avoid going cherry max?

Ta!
 

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Flat bar

I used a piece of mild steel bar to reach all of those, 3/8" thick x 3 inches x 5 inches, both ends are polished, one end is angled.
 

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Back rivet plate was too thick, but I did manage to make my own bucking bar to do the job.

Thanks guys!
 

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Hi everyone,

I’ve riveted on my canopy decks, all but the last few rivets circled in the photo are set. Access is too tight for even my small tungsten bucking bar to the last few. Anybody have any good ideas to avoid going cherry max?

Ta!

Use one of the squeezer yokes as the bucking bar...
 
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