[Shop-talk] Rivets won't pop

[hillman at planet-torque.com (David Hillman)]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, John Innis wrote:
> I'd suspect you just got a bunch of rivets that have gone bad.  How
> far did the mandrel pull before it broke?

    I'm not sure how far.  It's possible they are corroded inside, I guess, 
but they aren't very old.  In fact, I bought a new box and tried those 
without any better success.  Penetrating oil is an interesting suggestion, 
though.  I also tried hitting them with a heat gun for a bit, before 
installation, but that didn't help much if any, and was incredibly 
time-consuming.

--
  David Hillman

PS Tony, that was ~+30*, not negative.  Although I have had to work on the 
car on a frozen lake in ten below, that was a couple years ago.  Would you 
believe that I've been having no end of problems keeping the car from 
overheating, despite it only racing in well-below-freezing weather?