31-01-2022, 07:23 PM
I have done extensive solid riveting on both body and chassis, in my experience 3 x Rivet gun is not going to do anything but the small steel chassis rivets very well, it is designed for setting aluminium aircraft rivets but for the bigger rivets you need something more substantial. I have made button bucking bars for steel rivets with a ball nosed milling cutter, I have also made one for aluminium rivets utilising squeezer dies fitted into a suitable lump of steel. For chassis work and steel panels the rivets really need to be set hot, I have had good success using an oxy acetylene torch. I can not remember now what I showed of the process on my special body build thread, it was mostly of the aluminium riveting but there was a section on the chassis work that may be of help?
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