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Tips for removing solid rivets?
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<blockquote data-quote="Novicaine" data-source="post: 256338" data-attributes="member: 8315"><p>I just tried again, using these ideas and some I found watching some youtube videos (and the comments on them from people saying "that's not how you do it, you idiot" instead of posting something constructive like "here's a better way").</p><p></p><p>1) Use a center punch to mark the center of the rivet head.</p><p>2) Using a drill bit the same size as the hole in the boat that the rivet went through, drill a hole in the head of the rivet just as deep as the head.</p><p>3) Hit the side of the rivet head with a chisel using a hammer and the rivet head pops right off. </p><p>4) Use a punch slightly smaller than the rivet hole and and tap the body of the rivet out and through.</p><p></p><p>This works pretty good, nothing hardly even touches or scratches the boat. The only one problem I had was one rivet I got a little off center and drilled a little too far in (past the head) and enlarged the hole in the boat a little bit on one side.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Novicaine, post: 256338, member: 8315"] I just tried again, using these ideas and some I found watching some youtube videos (and the comments on them from people saying "that's not how you do it, you idiot" instead of posting something constructive like "here's a better way"). 1) Use a center punch to mark the center of the rivet head. 2) Using a drill bit the same size as the hole in the boat that the rivet went through, drill a hole in the head of the rivet just as deep as the head. 3) Hit the side of the rivet head with a chisel using a hammer and the rivet head pops right off. 4) Use a punch slightly smaller than the rivet hole and and tap the body of the rivet out and through. This works pretty good, nothing hardly even touches or scratches the boat. The only one problem I had was one rivet I got a little off center and drilled a little too far in (past the head) and enlarged the hole in the boat a little bit on one side. [/QUOTE]
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