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Jon and V Boat Conversions & Modifications
1992 Polar Kraft MVT-1751 with a 1992 Evinrude 60 HP…my first tin boat project
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<blockquote data-quote="Axhammer" data-source="post: 504604" data-attributes="member: 16767"><p>I have the boat hull back in the shop, on the floor so I can access the bottom.</p><p></p><p>My leak check revealed two leaking rivets. I will try and get them replaced tonight so I can leak check it again tomorrow. The reason I say “try” is because I am alone, and bucking rivets like these normally take two people, one to hold the bucking bar, and one to drive the rivet with the rivet gun. I’m going to set the boat on my dollys right-side up, and make a steel tube that the revet set will slide into. I will make it the correct length so that when it is in place, the river set will be supporting the rivet head from the underside. On the top, or inside the hull, I will buck (smash) the rivet with a hammer, creating a bucktail.</p><p></p><p>I’ve done this before on the flight line at ATC Mobile, so I know it can be done. We found a small hole in the helicopter hull, and we filled the hole with a rivet, and sent it on the morning flight. Had we towed the airplane into the hangar to install one rivet, it would have missed the morning flight.</p><p></p><p>I’m gonna touch up some of my welds also.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Axhammer, post: 504604, member: 16767"] I have the boat hull back in the shop, on the floor so I can access the bottom. My leak check revealed two leaking rivets. I will try and get them replaced tonight so I can leak check it again tomorrow. The reason I say “try” is because I am alone, and bucking rivets like these normally take two people, one to hold the bucking bar, and one to drive the rivet with the rivet gun. I’m going to set the boat on my dollys right-side up, and make a steel tube that the revet set will slide into. I will make it the correct length so that when it is in place, the river set will be supporting the rivet head from the underside. On the top, or inside the hull, I will buck (smash) the rivet with a hammer, creating a bucktail. I’ve done this before on the flight line at ATC Mobile, so I know it can be done. We found a small hole in the helicopter hull, and we filled the hole with a rivet, and sent it on the morning flight. Had we towed the airplane into the hangar to install one rivet, it would have missed the morning flight. I’m gonna touch up some of my welds also. [/QUOTE]
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