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[VAL] Buck rivets vs pop rivets (was: Progress on 1954 double door liner)



Bill -- can you distinguish a buck rivet from a pop rivet for me so I would know
what I was looking at if I saw one?  Or at least what is different about them --
I gather the buck rivets mean less work in disassembly somehow?

--Sarah


> I finally realized that the end caps are
> buck riveted together and I could remove them in one piece.
>

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>
> Another thing I discovered in removing the inside skin is that all of
> the inside skins were partially attached using buck rivets. In fact the
> upper two skins are six inches short of meeting at the roof so an eight
> inch piece was buck riveted to the two upper pieces and then the
> approximately eight and one half wide piece was buck riveted into place.
> Pop rivets were also used to hold the centers of the large panel to the
> interior vertical channels. I do not remember this being mentioned by
> anyone else.