Nolan Penney wrote:
> So I'll again remand you to a source, this time complete with pictures. I
>shan't mention
> its expertise, sonce that seems to repel you.
> Go to the library and get from the reference desk the
> Metals Handbook
> by the American Society for Metals
> Volume 6, Welding, Brazing, and Soldering
I realize you are trying to play the "book learnin'" card,
but that is the last resort of the logically lost.
I have no fear of "book learnin'", I have an engineering
degree in a box somewhere and a few dozen dusty old reference
tomes somewhere near there too. If I get so lost I can't
make my own points, maybe I'll stoop to referring blindly
to them too.
...let's ask the question a different way.
If rivetting is "the thing to do" according to all of
the experts, why do you never see it used for meaningful
work? Ever?
Surely of all of the body shops, restoration shops, even the backwoods
bondo slap shops, surely one of these groups would meet your
definition of enlightened enough to know "the way".
...or are you inferring that only you are right, and
the entire industry is hopelessly lost in fog? In
that case, you should really be out telling them, not wasting
your time here among the unclean masses.
You seem to be saying that all the experts know that
rivets are the best, and these books prove it. If I was born
yesterday and didn't leave the house between then and
now, I might accept that.
...however, it's simply an undefendable point, no matter
how hard you try. Points for effort, but, sorry, no. Maybe
the reasons are beyond you, but you just have to accept
that rivets are not an accepted method of auto body repair.
> And as a btw, I'd certainly take a well riveted body over a poorly welded one,
> any day of the week.
Um.... is this relevant? I'd take a nice BBQed round
steak over a burned filet mignon too, but is that
a valid point when comparing meat cuts? I'd take a mint
condition 1980 Yugo over a clapped out, accidented,
and rusted Spitfire, does that make the Yugo a better car?
Again, points for effort, but, sorry, no.
--
Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
"Let me handle this, I speak Yokel..." - Duckman
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