How To Rivet Sheet Metal On Car

In this video i show the repair of the extremely rusty threshold in my car.

How to rivet sheet metal on car.

Tinners rivets are solid steel rivets with either a tin or zinc finish. Rivets are the unsung heroes of the manufacturing industry. Use a panel hammer to tap down any high spots and to ensure the heads of the rivets sit below the surface of the auto body panel. To install place the rivet body into a hole in the materials to be joined until the rivet body lip is flush against the material surface.

Leave the filler to dry then sand down with a flat block and p80 grit sanding paper. The spacing of the rivets should be about inch apart. Apply a coat of galvanized body fill over the repaired area. Various sheet metal rivets choose the appropriate rivet size and capacity for the project for example 1 8 inch diameter and 1 2 inch capacity.

If your patch panel is aluminum use aluminum rivets and steel rivets for a steel patch and auto body. It is commonly known that mazda has pr. When it s just right start to drill the rivet holes. Choosing the right size of blind rivet.

If you are going to join two metal plates with a grip of 13 mm and want to use a 4 8 mm diameter blank rivet the rivet must be 18 mm long. Use edge clamps to secure the patch panel in place on the auto body repair panels. The greater the diameter of the blind rivet the stronger the join. Rivets are ideal for supporting shear and tensile loads as well as watertight applications.

Squeeze the rivet gun to pull the rivet mandrel. Measure the grip range. The grip range corresponds to the total thickness of the materials being joined together. The car is a mazda 323 2 0 ditd from 2001.

Use the table below to determine the length of the blind rivet. Once in place slide a rivet gun with the proper sized adapter over the rivet mandrel until the adapter is flush against the rivet body surface. They are typically used in sheet metal fabrication.