reelfunnm
Member
Hey all. I came across a way to locate leaky rivets by accident. I have a 17 ft. Tracker I'm restoring. When filling boat with water i found that some of the rivets were leaking that fastened the keel the length of the boat. It was very hard to determine which of these rivets are leaking , so I did my best. I flipped the boat and then rebuked and replaced the rivets I thought were bad. I proceeded to prep bottom for painting. When wiping the bottom down with acetone I spilt some along the keel. I for some reason crawled under and looked inside the boat. I saw that the acetone had seeped thru and was easily visible around several rivets. I proceeded to wet other rivets a found a few more. The new and rebuke rivets did not allow the acetone thru. Not sure if this has been talked about but thought it might help some find them hard to find leaky rivets. John