[Healeys] WG: Blind rivets at rear skirt rail

[warthodson at aol.com]

Another way that I have seen done is to use a die to cut threads onto the
shaft of the rivet. Then an appropriate nut is threaded onto the shaft after
the rivet is installed.
Gary Hodson




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From: Josef.Eckert at t-systems.com
To: Healeys at autox.team.net
Sent: Fri, Apr 9, 2010 8:20 am
Subject: [Healeys] WG: Blind rivets at rear skirt rail


John,
he easiest way is to use pop rivets and fill the holes with some kind of
iquid metal (aluminium) and polish the heads before painting. When its
roperly done they look like solid rivets.
Josef Eckert
onigswinter/GERMANY
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uftrag von Curt/Nancy Arndt
esendet: Freitag, 9. April 2010 05:39
n: john spaur
c: healeys at autox.team.net
etreff: 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.
e took an inexpensive Harbor Freight impact hammer and then took one of the
ips and machined it to accept the flat, round head of the original style
ivet.  He then made/modified a heavy curved dolly (comma shaped) so that it
it under the the hoop in the rear shroud to flatten the back side of the
ivet.
I'll see if I can get pictures of his setup since I want to make a similar
one
or 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
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