I began to Pop Rivet the Flap Brace into position and the crappy Home Depot Pop Rivet gun I had was

giving me fits so I dropped everything and made a run to Aircraft Harbor Freight.  Now I know there are

few Pop Rivets in the RV but having nice tools is just a guy thing. So I picked up this Central Pneumatic

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Man this the the only way to go.  One pull on the trigger and those MSP-42's hollered MERCY!

And the Cherry Rivets used here did the same.

Heres what they look like on the back side.

These are the Rivets used here. Vans gives you 6.  Geez... good thing no one make mistakes.

I aligned the Flap left to right to obtain the 3/16" clearance between the Aileron and Flap as well as the alignment on the trailing

edge and drilled each end of the hinge so I could Cleco and mount the Flap to drill the rest of the holes in the hinge material.

Shown here is where I cut the hinge material to match the inboard end of the wing.

Another shot without the Flap.

Shown here is the outboard end location.

I then installed -3 rivets through the skin and Flap Brace to keep them aligned to drill the remaining holes.

The instructions were not real clear as what to do with the 3 layers of material.  I decided to dimple all 3 layers,

skin, brace and hinge material.  First I dimpled the skin and brace.  Then I dimped the hinge material.  I always dimple

stuff with the maximum amount of force for a clean dimple.  This is the result of the first 3 holes.

As you can see it deformed the material badly.  Its a good thing I noticed this before I did the rest or I would have ruined it.

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Since the directions were unclear.  Next time I would have dimpled the skin, countersunk the Flap Brace to accommodate the dimple

of the skin and left the hinge material only drilled.  This is kinda what it looked like they had done on the QB Flap.