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Marcus · 01-27-08, 02:57 PM

There is an important question for which I´d like to ask for your knowledge, all you aircraft professionals, master riveters and Lola tub magicians out there:

When you get to certain areas which are hard to access even for your buddy holding the bucking bar, wouldn´t it be a good alternative to use cherry lock rivets? Any advice highly appreciated.
To my knowledge they can carry at least the same loads as normal rivets and they can be fixed by one man alone. Lola seemed to have used cherry lock rivets in certain areas, see below pics of SL 76/147´s original chassis:

01-27-08, 02:57 PM	#57 (permalink)
Marcus marcus Gold Supporter Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Germany GT40: LolaT70 project Posts: 427 Rep Power: 7	Re: LOLA T70 scratch build... There is an important question for which I´d like to ask for your knowledge, all you aircraft professionals, master riveters and Lola tub magicians out there: When you get to certain areas which are hard to access even for your buddy holding the bucking bar, wouldn´t it be a good alternative to use cherry lock rivets? Any advice highly appreciated. To my knowledge they can carry at least the same loads as normal rivets and they can be fixed by one man alone. Lola seemed to have used cherry lock rivets in certain areas, see below pics of SL 76/147´s original chassis: Attached Thumbnails