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Positively Riveting! - Don Bradner - 07-12-2007 10:34
Today's project was the replacement of a number of rivets holding bay door
frames. I had a couple of frames that were fully loose on one side or the other,
and a couple of others that I could rattle pretty good. I ended up doing both
sides of one door, and the left side of two others.
I chose white-painted rivets rather than plain, on the grounds that they will
take touch-up painting better.
It looks like several rivets have been replaced in the past; is this common? I
suspect that the flexing slowly destroys the aluminum pop rivets, unlike the
structural steel rivets.
Don Bradner
90 PT40 "Blue Thunder"
Eureka, CA
Positively Riveting! - M Thomas Eastham - 07-12-2007 13:31
Tell us more please! What size rivets did you use? What rivet
gun? Where did you get the white rivets? I need to do a panel on
my FC35.
Thanks in advance!
Thomas Eastham
Houston, TX
83' FC35 SB
84' FC33 SB parting
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Positively Riveting! - Don Bradner - 07-12-2007 13:49
I have a cheap, but effective, gun exactly like this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-AIRCRAFT-POP-RIVET-GUNS-riveting-riveter-gun-tools_W0QQi\
temZ170128664322QQihZ007QQcategoryZ55809QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
or http://tinyurl.com/27adj7
Originally paid for some rivets on e-bay, but had my first bad experience - no
product, no communications. Currently in PayPal claim/dispute over it.
So, I paid only slightly more to buy these:
http://www.speedwaymotors.com/p/1546,,_Tru-Rivets-Large-Head-3and16andquot;.html\
?itemNo=rivets
or http://tinyurl.com/2d229u
The rivets are 5/8 heads, same as what is already on the coach. Some of the
rivets I replaced were split-legged, and some weren't - the split-legged may be
original, but harder to come up with, and they aren't that much better in my
opinion.
Don Bradner
90 PT40 "Blue Thunder"
Eureka, CA
On 7/12/2007 at 8:31 PM M Thomas Eastham wrote:
>Tell us more please! What size rivets did you use? What rivet
>gun? Where did you get the white rivets? I need to do a panel on
>my FC35.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Thomas Eastham
>Houston, TX
>83' FC35 SB
>84' FC33 SB parting