![]() ![]() Riveting was actually rather fun, other than the noise, and some numbness of hands and arms for a while after the hammering ceased. Since it requires the inner walls be removed, this is also the only chance we’ll have to make any repairs this way. 1974 was a pivotal year for the 110, with 3 variations made that year, the last of the 2 inlay pins, the 4 inlay rivet variation, and the introduction of the 3 inlay rivet variations. Use a mini sledge or buy a bucking bar to tap against. If you are not counting the rocker rivet, the knife is made after late 1974. This is the best way to install any rivets in the outer trailer shell that need to be waterproof, due to the way they mushroom out behind the two pieces being riveted together to create a better seal. You can buck solid rivets just fine with two hammers, but if you have to do more than a couple, you might want to get a bit for an air hammer. The bucking bar is held – usually by a second person – inside the trailer, to provide resistance to hammer the rivet into. It’s hammered against a steel block, called a bucking bar, so the backside of the rivet flattens and spreads out. When buck riveting, you pneumatically hammer on the head of the rivet with a rivet gun. There are additional instructions from Vintage Trailer Supply here. Here’s a post from Airstream with lots of interesting facts about the history of rivets and how they work. Blind rivets (or “pop” rivets) are used when access to the joint is limited to only one side, such as when installing the interior walls, or attaching things to the walls. The Cherry E-Z® Buck rivet is a 50 ksi ductile Ti/Cb titanium. It is available in mild steel and A-286 stainless steel rivet sleeves, and meets MS20604 and MS20605 requirements. ![]() In this case, we’re buck riveting the aluminum exterior patches, which requires access to the back side of the wall and rivets themselves. This rivet is primarily used in nut plate applications and meets the torque-out and push-out requirements of NASM25027 for nut plates. An existing aluminum panel (that we drilled rivets out of to do frame welding repairs) being held in place by clecos until it’s ready to be buck riveted back on ![]()
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