We have a friend Gary in our flying club who is building an EVO Rocket. Sweet plane, checkout the EVO website. Gary’s fuselage is just out of the pictures. It was motinating to see his plane.
The Rocket is a variation on the RV line which uses solid rivets. The Sonex spar uses solid rivets and Sonex Company reccomends using a dished out bold and big hammer. Lots of builders have done this with great results. Gary graciously offered to lend us his rivet gun for our spar. He gave us a lesson on riveting 101.
Gary the "Rivet Master" & Dan
Would you trust this guy with your spar?
One thing to note is that RVs use size 3 and 4 rivets. The Sonex Spar uses size 5. So you need a 3X or larger gun for the Sonex rivets. If you use a smaller gun I’be been told the rivets will work harden before they are properly set.
Thanks Gary.
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