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Jon and V Boat Conversions & Modifications
riveting leaky jon boat
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<blockquote data-quote="mbullen" data-source="post: 494834" data-attributes="member: 24594"><p>You'll find many opinions to the "old aluminum" theory. In my experience, the older alloys were of better quality than today's formulas. Contamination plays a large part if welding, though. This mostly speaks to the user's ability to get it clean. ...and speaking of clean, you do want to clean the area thoroughly and you'll want to work the two panels flat. It's a bit difficult to interpret the section with which you're working as stated, but if the area is buckled, dirty and ovaled-out, a blind rivet is rarely going to do the job in any scenario. You might want to look into solid rivets that have some clinching power, not just fastening ability, especially if you're under the waterline. If the hole is too big for the hardware, drill to next size up. A dab of 5200 on the shank never hurt anything, either.</p><p>Just my thoughts on it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mbullen, post: 494834, member: 24594"] You'll find many opinions to the "old aluminum" theory. In my experience, the older alloys were of better quality than today's formulas. Contamination plays a large part if welding, though. This mostly speaks to the user's ability to get it clean. ...and speaking of clean, you do want to clean the area thoroughly and you'll want to work the two panels flat. It's a bit difficult to interpret the section with which you're working as stated, but if the area is buckled, dirty and ovaled-out, a blind rivet is rarely going to do the job in any scenario. You might want to look into solid rivets that have some clinching power, not just fastening ability, especially if you're under the waterline. If the hole is too big for the hardware, drill to next size up. A dab of 5200 on the shank never hurt anything, either. Just my thoughts on it. [/QUOTE]
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