- 1. [Healeys] Blind rivets at rear skirt rail (score: 1)
- Author: john spaur <jmsdarch@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:52:40 -0700
- How do people set the blind rivets that attach the rear hoop rail and rear shroud at the boot lip? Is there a tool? If so where can it be obtained? Thank you, John '62BT7 ____________________________
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- 2. Re: [Healeys] Blind rivets at rear skirt rail (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 20:18:39 -0700
- Those are honest-to-god rivets. There are pneumatic guns--similar to pneumatic chisels--or large squeezers to set these (you also need a bucking bar to use the gun). Both would cost a Benjamin or tw
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- 3. Re: [Healeys] Blind rivets at rear skirt rail (score: 1)
- Author: "Curt/Nancy Arndt" <cnaarndt@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 20:38:44 -0700
- You'll have to make one. One of the best ways I've seen this done is what Roger Moment came up with. He took an inexpensive Harbor Freight impact hammer and then took one of the tips and machined it
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- 4. Re: [Healeys] Blind rivets at rear skirt rail (score: 1)
- Author: "Curt/Nancy Arndt" <cnaarndt@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 04:54:18 -0700
- I'll see about getting everyone pictures. Cheers, Curt _______________________________________________ Healeys@autox.team.net Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html Suggested annual donation $12.75
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- 5. Re: [Healeys] Blind rivets at rear skirt rail (score: 1)
- Author: robert westcott <55healey@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 07:53:27 -0700
- I just used the buck on the outside and a small ball peen hammer on the inside, aluminum rivets are soft and easy to peen. Rob _______________________________________________ Healeys@autox.team.net D
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- 6. [Healeys] Blind rivets at rear skirt rail (score: 1)
- Author: "Mr. Finespanner" <mrfinespanner@earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 19:12:41 -0700
- Pegasus sells the squeezer for setting solid rivets. They ain't cheap--about $185 for the tool and dies. regards, Doug Reid, 18G Motorworks _______________________________________________ Healeys@au
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- 7. Re: [Healeys] Blind rivets at rear skirt rail (score: 1)
- Author: WILLIAM B LAWRENCE <ynotink@msn.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:24:53 +0000
- I've been looking for a squeezer or a set of snaps for some riveting I need to do on a series I Land Rover, so I've had an opportunity to study the problem a little bit. The problem with a squeezer i
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- 8. Re: [Healeys] Blind rivets at rear skirt rail (score: 1)
- Author: 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
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- 9. Re: [Healeys] Blind rivets at rear skirt rail (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Fine" <RonFineEsq@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:54:37 -0700
- I will add to this information: I was able to locate a type of Pop rivet that is closed on the bottom end. When in place, it looks just like a solid rivet that has been squeezed. Then just put a dab
- /html/healeys/2010-04/msg00248.html (8,172 bytes)
- 10. Re: [Healeys] Blind rivets at rear skirt rail (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:20:36 -0700
- Just when you thought this thread was over ... This is the best deal on a riveter I've seen: http://cgi.ebay.com/Jet-2-5-8-3-200-BPM-Air-Riveting-Hammer-JSG-0204R-NEW_W0QQitemZ330423459172QQcmdZViewI
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