Positively Riveting!

[Don Bradner]

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