Thread: Door seal rivets

Hi

All the door seal rivets on my '52 doors are "blind". Mind you all I have now after cleaning is holes in rusty and galv RHS steel tube full of rivet tails. Original "Tucker" pop rivets methinks.

Quite a few of the larger "assembly" and "skin" rivets are solids - snap head - "reactioned" tails. These will need to be hit with a gun with a snap head driver and a "bucking" bar, or fixed "snap" (in vice) and a hammer to "reaction" the tail. This is normally a two person job.

Don't know about the squeezer on Ebay. However, squeezers are normally industrial/aero manufacturing tools and need to be properly set up on a "line" by a toolmaker/fitter. With a squeezer material thickness and rivet length critical for a properly set rivet.

Cheers

Rick F

You 'might' be able to do it by someone holding a dolly or hammer against the head while you used a punch. The punch would have to be formed to spread & roll over the edges of the hollow rivet.

Someone in QLD sells the squeezer. Aircraft Aeroplane Tool Rivet Squeezer Aircraft Components Parts | eBay Problem is you need suitable tooling to go with it, something like this
Rivet Squeezer SET KIT 20 PCS Dimple Dies AN426 Squeezer Sets AN470 Flush Sets | eBay

Maybe something like this Lionel Hollow Rivet Setting Tool | eBay Again the tooling may need to be made/modified and you'd need someone holding it in position while you hit the punch. If you made something like this that held the dies in the correct orientation and you tightened a screw at one end (a bit like a G-clamp)........


The squeezer seems the best idea and tooling could be made for other riveting jobs. There must be a Chinese copy somewhere.......unless the ones advertised come from China.



Colin