[Tigers] Trunk Hardware

[Will Seay]

Try Michaels.  They seem to have a lot of stuff like that.  I believe that the original split rivets were black.

Will - 382001570 
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From: Ron Fraser via Tigers 
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 11:37 PM
To: 'Larry Mayfield' ; tigers at Autox.Team.Net 
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Trunk Hardware

 
Mayf

 

                I believe that is a Split Rivet – probably nickel or chrome plated.

A big hardware store might have them or maybe an upholstery or cloth goods shop.

 

Ron Fraser

 

 

From: Tigers [mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Larry Mayfield via Tigers
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2016 7:44 PM
To: Tiger List <tigers at autox.team.net>
Subject: [Tigers] Trunk Hardware

 

Ok, so I am deep into the trunk refurb, not restoration. The press board components, the side panels and the one hiding the fuel cross over tube were literally falling apart. So I have made new ones for an oak veneer panel plywood material a bit more than 1/8 inch thick. Not difficult but time consuming.  Right now I am searching for something I do not know the name of which really, really, makes it hard to find. The side panels in the trunk have angle brackets attached to them with what on the surface look like real rivets. Closer inspection however, shows that they  are a split pin of some sort that after being pushed through the hole and angle are bent over, akin to cotter pins, only with flat little legs.  Just what the dickens are these critters called? And where short of an old Spitfire airplane factory am I gonna find them?  5q are needed. I can as a last resort install some 3/16 rivets to get me by but real thing is preferred. 

 

Suggestions? 

 

mayf

 

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