Thank you once again. All of you. My boat still floats inspite of all my various screwups as I attempted to master the art of riveting. Generous application of Bostik 920 marine grade sealant helped to compensate for my amateurish mistakes.
I cruised over to Amazon, and found this book...
Edmeister: you nailed a couple of my defects as a riveter.
I am attaching some patch pieces to the hull of my boat where the trailer rollers have worn into the hull over time. I was afraid that eventually the rollers would wear all the way through the hull, so I added the patch pieces as a...
I have a 3X gun, and am running it at 90 psi. I started out with the air adjustment throttled down on the rivet gun, and then started opening it up as I hammered away on some test pieces. I am guessing that it takes 1-2s to set a rivet. My gun is rated at 2160 blows per minute so this would...
Thank you.
The patch is on the outside, the rivets have a button head, and I am using a sealant.
Your counsel to practice on a test piece was great. I set up a test piece in a vise and experimented a little. One thing I noticed was that if the buck bar was not held plumb to the rivet that...
What causes rivets to bend off-axis rather than crushing straight down along the long axis of the rivet when you try to set them?
I am setting some 5/32 aluminum rivets (AN470AD-5-8)to fasten a patch piece onto the hull of my boat. If I use a long enough rivet to give 1/4" protrusion they...
