Re: SER1 door capping rivetts

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    G'Day Bob,
    They are called rivets. They are usually installed by inserting the 
rivet in the hole, domed head outermost of couse. A rivet "set" to match 
the domed head is inserted in your air hammer and a "bucking bar" is 
placed on the underside (straight end) of the rivet with upward 
pressure. When the air hammer is operated, the straight of the rivet is 
peened over. It takes only a couple of seconds. The bucking bar is 
usually nothing more than a piece of steel, suitably shaped to access 
the staright end of the rivet. The secret is to have it as heavy as 
practical yet still be able to fit it under the body work. A kilo or so 
is good.
    Rivet squeezing tools are also used by some, but either way you will 
still require at least the correct "set" as it has a round hole in its 
end, the same shape and size of the rivet head.
    Keith Wadsworh can supply both the rivets (which are hard to come by 
these days with the correct head size/shape otherwise) and the tooling 
to install them, or at least the "set".
    The pop rivets were used on the sides of the cappings because the 
inner end of them is inside the box formed by the reinforcing strip spot 
welded into the rear body and around the doors and tailgate, hence no 
access for a bucking bar. Note that the pop rivets used originally had 
smaller heads than those available at your local hardware shop these 
days. Keith may be able to point you towards a source of the correct 
head size pop rivets too.
    Cheers
    Allan
    Canberra, Australia


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