February 3, 2007

Ok - no pictures today. I went to the EAA 690 pancake breakfast and saw some nice RVs and a Glassair. Then I went to Harbor Freight and picked up one of the air riveters (on sale 26.99). I should have known when I picked it up I was going to have problems.

The box was in ROUGH shape - the bottom was pushed out and the glued seam wasn't glued any more. Everything appeared to be there so I didn't worry about it - it's not unusual to get stuff from HF with busted boxes. The riveter was covered in oil when I took it out of the "box". Apparently the upper hydralic cylinder was poorly machined and oil was pushing past the pistion in the head. I spent 2 hours screwing around with it - time to take it back.

The rest of the evening was spent with the GF.

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