Removing rivets?

Removing rivets?

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confusionhunter

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Wednesday 18th February 2015
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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.....

confusionhunter

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Friday 20th February 2015
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Thanks Chaps! I'll give it a miss I think, I was just curious if there was some ingenious way if getting it all out somehow....

confusionhunter

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Saturday 21st February 2015
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Ahh Ive seen those Death magnets!!! ruins all your credit cards from 2 feet away!

Nice idea except that Aluminium isnt magnetic......

confusionhunter

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Tuesday 3rd March 2015
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interesting... I have another 2 rivets I want to replace with bolts in the engine bay so will drill the holes larger and suck em out!

Also... isnt that just expanding foam of sorts? Is there a special motorsport product/application?

confusionhunter

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Wednesday 4th March 2015
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Very good point!
I was also thinking this could be used to insulate between aluminium skins without removing them? yes you could use it to help sort the rivet issue, but one of the reasons for removing a panel may be to add insulation....

confusionhunter

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Thursday 5th March 2015
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so would closed cell foam be lighter than dynamat/fat mat etc?? wink