Bulk head Rivets

[wwracer]

Made some tunnel reinforcements the other day.. went to the Doo shop and was looking for some beefy rivets. Purchased some rivets used on the bulkhead, however, when I went to pop them they wouldn't fit my air riveter. Turns out the nails are 9/64 as opposed to 1/8 as used on a normal 3/16 rivet. Any ideas where I can find a "nose" piece for my riveter to fit the larger nails?

 

[skank]

Ive drilled out a nose piece before to fit a strange size rivet. Would that work for you??

 

[wwracer]

Yeah I tried to open up one of the smaller nose pieces and it smoked my drill bit. tough stuff.....

 

[skidoojames151]

use the next sized tip for the rivit gun, if u are maxed out, that means your riveter is too small to pull your rivit anyway. What kind of rivet are they? avex or regular pop?

 

[JLeosnow]

I'm assuming that wwracer is referring to the 2 big Hemlock rivets that are used in the S-Module..?

When we replaced a S-module on one of these we used an air rivet gun to pull these rivets as they were tough MO FO's! I could not even imagine trying to do these with a hand rivet gun!

-John

 

[skidoojames151]

^^^^^exactly, i wouldnt use anything less than an air riveter that can handle 1/4 inch steel rivits..