Dan and I were looking over the rivets and Dan spotted a couple that were just OK. One in particular had a little angle on it, so after a short discussion we decided to give it a couple hits from the rivet gun and bucking bar to flatten it out. As you are probably thinking, we should have left it alone. The bucking bar tilted in my hands and the shop head looked horrible, we were so annoyed. One more to drill out. This row is the -12 lengths which is the longest and you really don’t want to enlarge the hole. Dan drilled it out really well, I’ll have to call him the surgeon. Here is a couple pictures of the new rivet before and after. Notice we put tape on the angles around the bucking bar to prevent scratches.
