Inexpensive hand-operated tool is used to dimple airframe skins to receive countersunk-head rivets. Tool replaces bulky pneumatic equipment normally used for dimpling and is useful for one person operation, thereby saving time and manpower.
Dimpling aircraft skins for countersunk-head rivets
NASA Tech Briefs ; 4 , 3
1980-04-01
Miscellaneous
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English
Study of tightness and flushness of machine-countersunk rivets for aircraft
Engineering Index Backfile | 1942
|Tensile tests of NACA and conventional machine-countersunk flush rivets
Engineering Index Backfile | 1944
|Engineering Index Backfile | 1951