Help needed with capping Rivets - type and Location

[jedwards]

Gentleman,
The tub has just come back from the Painters. It the first of my panels to come back finished and ready to install, so an exciting time in the restoration of my 1953 80".

When I stipped the car down, and removed the capping and fittings to be regalvanised, I was very careful to photograph each section of the capping, so that I would have a reference to what rivet types was used in each location. Unfortunately I left all those images on my Phone, which I lost/ misplaced/ broke, so I now I don't have those images, so have no reference to work from.

Neither Workshop Manual nor Parts Manual indicate where Solid Rivets and conventional Rivets are used. I have both, just not sure what goes where.

Can anyone point me towards a reference of some kind?

Many thanks
Jeff in Perth

[cjc_td5]

In short, blind rivets are used where you cannot get rear access for a buck. Solid rivets otherwise. On a tub the top rivets are solid and the rivets on the sides are blind rivets.

[1950landy]

As said , In top of capping are solid aluminium round head rivets & all side rivets are blind pop rivets .

[1950landy]

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[LR1953]

As a child, I remember my father using solid Aluminium rivets at home. He would anneal them immediately prior to use by heating on a shovel blade over the fire in the kitchen woodstove. He fabricated the jib of a toy crane that way, and the crane is still in my possession 70-odd years later!
Rob S

[Don 130]

As a child, I remember my father using solid Aluminium rivets at home. He would anneal them immediately prior to use by heating on a shovel blade over the fire in the kitchen woodstove. He fabricated the jib of a toy crane that way, and the crane is still in my possession 70-odd years later!
Rob S

May we be permitted a viewing of said toy crane? After all....
Don.

[LR1953]

May we be permitted a viewing of said toy crane? After all....
Don.

Don,
Give me a day and I'll happily oblige. As a bonus, I'll add a tractor from the same period. (My camera makes very big files. After shooting I'll need to put the pic through photoshop to get the filesize down to something manageable.)
Rob S

[LR1953]

For the benefit of Don and others: a bit off topic, but herewith the toy crane and tractor, circa 1952-53. I think Dad gave them a tidy-up in the 1980's for a nephew of mine. Note the blind rivets holding the elements of the jib together, which is 320mm long.
Cheers, Rob S

[russellrovers]

Gentleman,
The tub has just come back from the Painters. It the first of my panels to come back finished and ready to install, so an exciting time in the restoration of my 1953 80".

When I stipped the car down, and removed the capping and fittings to be regalvanised, I was very careful to photograph each section of the capping, so that I would have a reference to what rivet types was used in each location. Unfortunately I left all those images on my Phone, which I lost/ misplaced/ broke, so I now I don't have those images, so have no reference to work from.

Neither Workshop Manual nor Parts Manual indicate where Solid Rivets and conventional Rivets are used. I have both, just not sure what goes where.

Can anyone point me towards a reference of some kind?

Many thanks
Jeff in Perth

hi i have correct capping rivits jim