Vent window seal installation
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Vent window seal installation
I can't figure out how to squeeze the little brass rivets used to hold these seals to the division bar. Dennis Carpenter has not replied to my request for help. A special tool maybe? Any ideas?
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Call Carolina Classics Monday/Friday 800-598-4211 Rickey can help.
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Eric. The rivets are for putting the little curved mounting arm on the division bar, not for the rubber seal. To buck the rivets, I use a small dab of glue, yellow weatherstrip adhesive (gorilla snot) or what ever to hold the mount to the bar and the rivets in the holes, then I put a flat faced punch in a vise, hold the assembly over the punch (the punch on the flat face of the rivet) and very gently with a small ball-peen hammer tap the end of the rivet to flatten it out. Look at your old assembly and you will see what I'm talking about.
Hope this makes sense.
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Hope this makes sense.
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Vent window seal installation
Actually, Skip, there are five small rivets supplied to hold each vent edge seal to the division bar. It sounds like your method will work if I can round up a second pair of hands...Your advice is a lot better than Dennis Carpenter's: "Remove the division bar and have someone rivet the seal in place". (!)
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Eric What I done to set the rivits you are talking about was to cut off a "nail set" so the end was about 1/4 in dia. Then I chucked it up in my lathe (you could use a drill clamped in a vice) and run it at high speed ..then with my Dremel tool with a small rock bit, I concaved the end of the punch, to set the rivit..will have to hold a backup on the other side of the rivit...Packrat_1954
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