While attaching the aileron/flap hinge and bellcrank brackets I discovered that my rivet puller would not reach one rivet at each station. It was tucked under the lower aft section of the wing trialing edge. I bought a cheap rivet puller and used a grinder to reduce the height until it was even with the barrel of the puller. It just fit into the space available to pull the rivets.
In hindsight I should have bought a second rivet puller when I started the project. I don’t know how many times I have gotten a little of the Hysol adhesive on the tip of the rivet puller and was unable to get the shaft of a rivet out of the puller. I got pretty good at quickly taking apart the rivet puller to get the shaft out, then reassembling the tool fast enough to get back to the job of pulling rivets before the adhesive hardened up. Kind of like field stripping and re -assembling a rifle. It’s been a long time since I’ve had to do that. It would have been much easier to have a second rivet puller to use in those circumstances. Now I have one.
