Removing rivets?
Discussion
I'm properly dismantling the car at the moment and going through it with a fine tooth comb! So I'm looking at what else I can do and I'd quite like to remove a couple of the Alu skin panels. I think I know the answer to this.... how can I remove rivets and not have bits of them floating around inside the chassis?
I suspect I cant so I'll just need to find a work around.....
I suspect I cant so I'll just need to find a work around.....
Steve_D said:
confusionhunter said:
....Nice idea except that Aluminium isnt magnetic......
True, but the piece of rivet left in the chassis has a piece of steel in it so would still be attracted to the magnet.Steve
Here's an idea, for all the rivets in the main side rails and if you're taking it back to a bare chassis (to get the weight right down), when you've finished drilling, cut or drill large holes in the ends of the the chassis tubes right at the back of the car, then stand the chassis on end and all the river heads will fall out the ends of the rails. Then weld up the holes! This obviously won't work with the cross tubes but hey, nobody's perfect.
Drill out all the rivets and squirt in expanding polystyrene foam, the stuff you buy from wickes etc in an aerosol can for filling wall cavities. This will lock down any loose rivet heads with the added bonus that you get to see its progress as it appears sequentially along the chassis tubing.
Steve
Steve
there is actually a foam made for such an application. Its made by SEM and its called "ultra rigid foam" . This stuff is used by OEMs in panel voids to stiffen the panel and reduce noise. Its sets up like a rock. I have used it in the floor and firewall voids in the Ultima and the panels go from sounding like a Dink to a thud if you follow what I mean. This was also a old trick in showroom stock cars that raced in THE SCCA years ago in what was a professional well sponsored class. Lee
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