Subject: Re: [airstream] rivets
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 09:10:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rick Davis K8DOC@twlakes.net
Reply-To: airstream@h2eau.net

At 12:55 10/25/98 -0500, you wrote:

I have installed Olympic rivets with a pop rivet tool. I am assuming they haven't changed in the last 15 years. They do require a special tool for finishing the head although I suspect that with patience one moght be able to devise a method that would work. Before the Olympic rivet it was possible to make a repair from the outside using exploding rivets. The one time I did it I fired them by holding a large soldering iron against the rivet. Haven't heard of them in a long time so that is probably not an available method today

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