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From: William E. Handy Jr. - K6LF <wmhandy@pacificnet.net>
To: Kurt Andress <ni6w@yagistress.minden.nv.us>; k2av@qsl.net <k2av@qsl.net>
Cc: towertalk <towertalk@contesting.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Thursday, November 05, 1998 12:07 PM
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] C-31 XR, Assembly, Rivet Tool Slippage and Rivet
Alignment
>Hello All,
>
>I had no rivet tool slippage while assembling my C-3, and I was lubricating
>the rivets with noalox! I use a Stanley model MR100I tool from Home Depot.
Have had a number of direct emails referring to the same trouble I had.
Would not be suprised if the inner design of the tool, or some quality
factor, made some tools more subject to the slippage than others.
Thanks for the note. If I can't get mine cleaned & working for the next
time, will hop over to HD and get one like yours. I think mine came in one
of those pop rivet + tool specials from the local hardware store. It's
probably not the same quality as a Stanley. Also, the C31XR had more rivets
in an afternoon than all the rest of my life combined.
73, Guy.
>
>If I did have slippage problems though, my first thought about cleaning the
>tool would be to squirt some brake or carb cleaner into the grip jaw area
of
>the tool.
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