Vertical Stab Bracket

[homer bell]

Install a flush countersunk rivet, or just remove the rivet completely, your bolt will do what ever the rivet was doing before. Use a right angle drill to drill your hole thru the rivet hole into the bracket, not the other way around. Start with small hole.

[Justin Lewis]

Originally Posted by homer bell

Install a flush countersunk rivet, or just remove the rivet completely, your bolt will do what ever the rivet was doing before. Use a right angle drill to drill your hole thru the rivet hole into the bracket, not the other way around. Start with small hole.

Thanks Homer. I've already pulled one of the two rivits out. The other one is under the skin and apparently holds the stringer to the frame so I can't see or reach the head of that one. In the end, the two rivits are far enough apart that I can't include both of them in the single bolt hole AND they're too close together to try and avoid one of them all together. Currently, I'm planning on simply drilling like you said through the rivit that goes through the skin. I'll probably try to remove the back of the stringer rivit but the result will be a bolt hole with an edge that intersects the other rivit hole.

[Justin Lewis]

Originally Posted by Justin Lewis

Thanks Homer. I've already pulled one of the two rivits out. The other one is under the skin and apparently holds the stringer to the frame so I can't see or reach the head of that one. In the end, the two rivits are far enough apart that I can't include both of them in the single bolt hole AND they're too close together to try and avoid one of them all together. Currently, I'm planning on simply drilling like you said through the rivit that goes through the skin. I'll probably try to remove the back of the stringer rivit but the result will be a bolt hole with an edge that intersects the other rivit hole.

Here's the photo brackets so you can make a ballpark template.