Jim,
Don't drill completely through the rivet. Just drill
the head off and push the rest into the windscreen
frame. Doing this allows you to retain the original
diameter of the hole.
Dan Dwelley
77 Midget
Alexandria, Va.
--- James Algar <JamesA@hi-torque.com> wrote:
>
> The little plastic clips that secure the inner ends
> of the sun
> visors on my '69 Sprite are snapped and broken, and
> need replacing. They're
> held on by rivets; a close examination of the
> available replacements leads
> to a couple of questions. Moss shows screws, listed
> as "SCREW, alternative
> to orig. rivet" (page 31 of their SPM-09 catalog)
> while Victoria British
> doesn't say, but the picture on page 31 of their
> SM.31 seems to me to show
> pop rivets as part of their replacement kit.
>
> O.K., here are the questions: anybody out there
> have experience with
> either method of replacement? If you drill out the
> rivets, does that make
> the hole too large for Moss' screws? And how deeply
> do you have to drill
> them to clean out enough room for VB's new pop
> rivets?
>
> The Great Carnak says the answer is......
>
> Jim Algar
> '69 Sprite Mk.IV
>
>
>
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