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Old 02-11-2014, 10:34 PM
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Originally Posted by hotrod150 View Post
The "smoking rivet" effect is caused by the rivet being loose in the hole and working away at the aluminum skin. Tar & nicotine may cause cancer in humans but they have nothing to do with smoking rivets on airplanes.
That's true. The one place where you will find evidence of nicotine is on the outflow valve of the pressurization system. A&P school taught me that

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