Dial Indicator Repair With a Sonic Cleaner

**kbalch** · Mar 10, 2016, 08:48 AM

Originally Posted by PJs

Think that is starting to approach Avogadro's number by the time all the op's are done...That's a fair bit I would say. WoW!

I'd have been snow blind and arthritic after that. Skinned the side of a 30' Airstream trailer once...nuff rivets at one sitting for a lifetime for me.

One of my friends recently complained about having to do a project with about 1K rivets. Pop rivets, mind you, done with a pneumatic puller. I had to laugh and refer him to my RV project photos. On the plus side, I've got an excellent collection of clecos!

Originally Posted by C-Bag

I concur with PJ's, WOW Ken.....we had to re skin one wing of a 150 in aircraft school and i quickly realized I was not cut out for that kind of soul crushing work.

Yeah, it can get that way sometimes. The key (for me, anyway) was to get into a rhythm with each operation. Measure, layout, drill, deburr (both sides), dimple/countersink, drill to structure, deburr (both sides), dimple/countersink, and rivet. Repeat daily for 2.5 years.