- 1. [Shop-talk] Leaky rivets (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 21:28:58 -0500
- My MGTC's rear axle housing is a partially riveted assembly. A few rivets were leaking when I took it apart, and now that it's stripped and mostly clean, I have a good chance to seal all of the rivet
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- 2. Re: [Shop-talk] Leaky rivets (score: 1)
- Author: "John T. Blair" <jblair1948@cox.net>
- Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 07:52:36 -0400
- residual oil, and Karl, For about $6 you might try a tube of epoxy putty from the auto parts store. Take a little slice, need it to mix it and form a string. Then lay it around the head of the rivet
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- 3. Re: [Shop-talk] Leaky rivets (score: 1)
- Author: Doug Braun <doug@dougbraun.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 06:08:41 -0700 (PDT)
- You might try low-viscosity crazy-glue. The best low-viscosity kind gotten from a hobby shop. Doug partially riveted apart, and now that it's to seal all of the rivets. not be bothered by a Karl, ___
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- 4. Re: [Shop-talk] Leaky rivets (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 15:48:00 -0500
- I worry about cyanoacrylates (crazy glue) as being too brittle - are some grades more flexible ? Someone on the MG T-Series list suggested green Loctite 290 - I think that's the one for already-assem
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- 5. Re: [Shop-talk] Leaky rivets (score: 1)
- Author: John Miller <jem@milleredp.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 14:46:50 -0700
- I'd tend to agree. It sounds like the best alternative, but I'd doubt that anything's going to work unless and until the area around the hole, the shank, and the head are clean. John. _______________
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- 6. Re: [Shop-talk] Leaky rivets (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 17:18:44 -0500
- It's just back from Redi-Strip. Clean and ready to seal - though I'll shoot brake cleaner and then flow some metal prep down there a day before anyway. Thanks ! Karl _________________________________
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- 7. Re: [Shop-talk] Leaky rivets (score: 1)
- Author: mike rambour <mikey@b2systems.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 15:44:07 -0700
- What about sweating some solder in there like you would a copper pipe joint, heat it up just enough to ooze solder into the joint ? mike _______________________________________________ Support Team.N
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- 8. Re: [Shop-talk] Leaky rivets (score: 1)
- Author: Chris Kantarjiev <cak@dimebank.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 16:05:13 -0700 (PDT)
- I've used the green stuff to seal the pushrod tubes on a TR4A; it's pretty standard for that. Works pretty well - use brake cleaner to really get the gaps clean. _____________________________________
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- 9. Re: [Shop-talk] Leaky rivets (score: 1)
- Author: "Eric J Russell" <ejrussell@mebtel.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 21:12:37 -0400
- Is there no way to re-peen the rivets? Correctly installed the body of the rivet should expand slightly to fill the hole. The head would not be the main 'leak-proof' mechanism. (Can we use "leak proo
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- 10. Re: [Shop-talk] Leaky rivets (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 21:26:20 -0500
- Wellll, it's possible to re-peen them or replace them, but there's little point in doing so AFAIK. They're tight - but a few are a little weepy. I don't know what they really accomplish other than as
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