[simpits-tech] List problems...

[Roy Coates]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Ben Jones wrote:

> Wholey-moley  hand riverting is not mentioned anywhere in my text books,
>
> It must be a lost art ???

Not around here it's not !!

The guy who taught us to rivet said we'd be better starting by hand so
that we would learn to 'feel' the rivets. He was right, after about 1,000
by hand you can do anything with a rivet gun!!



> On a side note I once was working with a aircraft engineer who had a lisp,
> we were riverting the bottom skins back on the bottom of a Cessna 150 after
> a incident , my mum and dad popped into the hanger to say hello, the
> engineer looked up and asked mum to hand him the bucking bar..
>
> Well mum gave him a mouthful for using language like that infront of a lady,
> she was highly embarrassed when the situation was explained to her.


Heh!!