I know howya feel, I have a day and a half in and I only have a third of em drilled.
I have a 60 gallon compressor and a Ingersoll Rand air chisel, I tried chiseling off the heads and it really wallowed out the holes. I'll give it a try again but I believe solid steel 3/16 rivets are a bit too much for the 16ga steel sheet. We'll see......
Hey what are you doing for the next 3 hrs?Not that I've got it down to system I can de-rivet a while 40' bus interior in about 3 hours.
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Started with the mandrels and then he went with the solid rivets.
Thomas uses screws instead of rivets for at least the ceiling. Why Blue Bird WHY!!!!
I'm talking about all of the solid rivets above the window openings, all the way around the bus. I'm doing a full front to back roof raise.
I'm going to do the same and I'm not looking forward to it. The rivets on the side of the bus appear to be easy enough to get at the backside with an angle grinder. That's going to be my first attempt at removal. Drilling does NOT sound like fun. The front cap I might have to. I havent' gotten to removing the interior skin over the windshield yet.
Hey what are you doing for the next 3 hrs?
I'm not quick enough for that. Compressor runs constant. Last night the extension cord died. I spent an hour trying to get power. No dice. Need to buy a new cord.
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With the skins off I can grind down the back side of the rivet and push them out. That's the theory anyway. I haven't done any solid rivets yet. The front cap over the windshield will be fun. There's literally a rivet every inch across the 8 foot span.
Why are you removing rub rails? I guess ... are you removing and putting back or getting rid of them forever? First rub rail overlapping with the new skin sounds right.
You need to get some damn work done before now and Sept so I have more ideas to steal.:biggrin:No- you have to take the rub rails off to make the roof raise re-panel look good and sit flush. I've tried to explain that to you, but I'll show you in person in Sept!
It's been too damn hot for me to do much. I went and sweated by balls off for an hour yesterday trying to get power. My extension cord died. At first I thought it was the GFI outlet. Once I had power there, still nothing at the end of the cord. I hit it with a weed eater once. Been waiting for that to finally go. Cut and splice. Stlll didn't work. It has another break somewhere and I can't find it. My 25ft will reach one of the poles but that GFI box is shot. Belongs to the Army RV lot so I can't just slap a new GFI on it. I finally gave up and helped a co-worker with his popup camper. New cord will be here today. Tomorrow is low 80s and less humidity. Today was miserable at lunch. Yesterday wasn't much better.I move SLOW on this thing. But this winter we'll be getting a bunch more work done. I now have a part time helper who's a decent fabricator and a great welder!
This is normal for your summers. I moved twice to get away from this crapola. Today 90° 60%.Right now I''m at about 2 hours every other week or so. Its raining a LOT and I have mowers, vans, and all kinds of stuff to fix!
READY for winter!!
+1 for this, at least! It'll look so much better with that lower edge of the new metal concealed behind the rub rails.No- you have to take the rub rails off to make the roof raise re-panel look good and sit flush. I've tried to explain that to you, but I'll show you in person in Sept!
