We spent 4 days doing Sheet Metal Shape assignment. As we have aquired the skills of riveting in the previous exercise, this exercise will put what we have mastered into test!
This project do require some teamwork in a pair cause it's more efficient to have 2 people riveting rather than doing it alone! Reason being working in pairs can help each other look out for mistakes =)
The key learning point in this project is to let us experience riveting rivets of different sizes and the skills of our riveting. We can also learn the correct technique of repairing a rivet in case of an mistakes made.
This is what it looks like after sawing! We will still need to bring out our most powerful tool to help us get the nice shape! The FILE!!!
You might be wondering how do we file the small corners and radii? =)
We have the needle files! They may look small but do not underestimate their usefulness!
Riveting in process! Cleco are used to hole the workpiece in place before the rivets were installed so as not to let the workpiece "open" up!
With concentration and teamwork, they did it!
There you have it! The completed sheet metal shape!The challenging part for the project is to file the gap evenly of 2mm throughout. This will test the skills we have aquired in the first week!
Another challenge is to make sure that the surface of the workpiece is not scratched from riveting and the rivets are all even!
We have also reaped additional rewards! We have learnt how to read the different rivet and sizes! This is essential as there are many different types of rivets installed in an aircraft and 1 wrong installation can be disasterous! I've watched an episode of Aircrash Investigation where the pilot flew out from the cockpit due to a wrong installation of rivet!Last but not least, we have our star of the blog again, Lu Wei to show us how to do repair of a rivet!
*P/S: There might be some sidetrack in this video. Please bear with us =p*
-PeRrY-
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