[Healeys] WG: Blind rivets at rear skirt rail

[Josef.Eckert at t-systems.com]

John,
The easiest way is to use pop rivets and fill the holes with some kind of
liquid metal (aluminium) and polish the heads before painting. When its
properly done they look like solid rivets.

Josef Eckert
Konigswinter/GERMANY

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Von: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] Im
Auftrag von Curt/Nancy Arndt
Gesendet: Freitag, 9. April 2010 05:39
An: john spaur
Cc: healeys at autox.team.net
Betreff: Re: [Healeys] Blind rivets at rear skirt rail

John,

You'll have to make one.

One of the best ways I've seen this done is what Roger Moment came up with.
He took an inexpensive Harbor Freight impact hammer and then took one of the
tips and machined it to accept the flat, round head of the original style
rivet.  He then made/modified a heavy curved dolly (comma shaped) so that it
fit under the the hoop in the rear shroud to flatten the back side of the
rivet.

I'll see if I can get pictures of his setup since I want to make a similar one
for my Healey project.

Cheers,

Curt

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:52 PM, john spaur <jmsdarch at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> How do people set the blind rivets that attach the rear hoop rail and
> rear shroud at the boot lip?
>
> Is there a tool? If so where can it be obtained?
>
> Thank you,
> John
> '62BT7
> _________