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

[M Thomas Eastham]

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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[Don Bradner]

I have a cheap, but effective, gun exactly like this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-AIRCRAFT-POP-RIV...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,,_T....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