[AR] Re: Rolled aluminum fuselage

  • From: J Farmer <jfarmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 12:14:01 -0400

On 8/13/2018 9:02 AM, Robert Watzlavick wrote:

Spotwelding would work as well and would be lighter.  One advantage of rivets is that the skin can potentially be replaced if needed by just drilling out the rivets.

-Bob

On 08/13/2018 04:28 AM, Uwe Klein wrote:
Am 13.08.2018 um 05:25 schrieb Ray Rocket (Redacted sender ar0cketman for DMARC):
  fasteners were AACS-04-02 blind rivets.
does anything speak against spotwelding here?

Is it worth the effort of analyzing the likelihood of removing the skin without major renewal of the airframe?

John


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