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Re: [Healeys] Blind rivets at rear skirt rail

To: WILLIAM B LAWRENCE <ynotink@msn.com>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Blind rivets at rear skirt rail
From: john spaur <jmsdarch@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:53:39 -0700
There is a lot of interest on this subject! Great information such as:

Fill the rivet with liquid aluminum and paint
Snap style rivets (two piece I presume)
How rivets work (compression and expansion to fill the hole)
Tool suggestions - sources, costs and types; air hammers, chisels, bucks
Methods - weight on the head while forming the penned end

What did the factory use? Will someone just loan it to me? I can 
always dream; right!

At 02:24 AM 4/10/2010 +0000, WILLIAM B LAWRENCE wrote:
>I've been looking for a squeezer... for some riveting I need to 
>do... The problem with a squeezer in the case of the shroud to boot 
>surround rivets on a Healey is that the ends of the rivets are 
>within a sheet metal "C" section that is difficult or impossible for 
>any standard shape of squeezer...
>
>Bill Lawrence
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