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easy, free, one-man rivet rebucking
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<blockquote data-quote="acabtp" data-source="post: 216595" data-attributes="member: 5368"><p>I had a few loose rivets on the floor of my 14' starcraft. When I was out on the water yesterday, I used a red crayon to circle the leaky ones (works while wet). Today, I pulled the boat off of the trailer and laid it on the driveway. Then, I put an old brake rotor under the boat and lined it up with each of the rivets that needed rebucking, gave them a quick couple taps from the interior with a hammer, and now they are tight as a drum. Took me all of 5 minutes.</p><p></p><p>Only thing to be careful is to make sure that you are holding things down firmly against the anvil (brake rotor in my case)... each hammer strike will be a quiet, high pitched "tink"... if there is a big aluminum boom you are doing it wrong.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="acabtp, post: 216595, member: 5368"] I had a few loose rivets on the floor of my 14' starcraft. When I was out on the water yesterday, I used a red crayon to circle the leaky ones (works while wet). Today, I pulled the boat off of the trailer and laid it on the driveway. Then, I put an old brake rotor under the boat and lined it up with each of the rivets that needed rebucking, gave them a quick couple taps from the interior with a hammer, and now they are tight as a drum. Took me all of 5 minutes. Only thing to be careful is to make sure that you are holding things down firmly against the anvil (brake rotor in my case)... each hammer strike will be a quiet, high pitched "tink"... if there is a big aluminum boom you are doing it wrong. [/QUOTE]
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