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Re: [A/S] Reattaching belly skin



> I've heard of people using steel rivits with plastic washers to avoid
> contact of dissimilar metals. I could also get some rivits with over
> sized heads, though they would corrode after a decade or so. Another
> option is to drill a new hole in these locations.

 I have used both the oversized head rivets (so called "large flange"- around
here they call them "race car rivets" ;), but on my "high mileage" '75, I
finally used pieces of thin flat stock aluminum along the frame- kind of the
ultimate washer.

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Chris Bryant