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Originally Posted by tubesrule
Riveting is not hard to do and rivets matching the originals are available and cheap. You do need some special tools for semi-tubular rivets which can be expensive, but sometimes you can find them cheap on ebay and such. I use a local place for supplies: http://www.rivetsinstock.com/
For doing rivets in the middle of a chassis where a hand or small bench squeezer is not practical, I just use a hand tool that holds one side of the squeezer set and back the other side up with a heavy piece of steel holding the other side squeezer and tap it with a hammer. Here are some that I've done using this method: |
That is exactly what I was talking about. I figured there would be some kind of supplier but didn't know what the rivets were called and where they could be obtained. Thanks for sharing the info!