Airstream Exterior Rivets
Home Build Story Parts List Contact March 31 2019 Getting the Street-side Rear Panel Sealed and Riveted March 31 2019 Kyle Acker.
Airstream exterior rivets. Airstreams For Sale Link. 18 Stainless Steel Pop Rivet - Pack of 50 - 110350-01. This is a short video on how to check and replace bad exterior rivets on an Airstream Camper.
These rivets have a shear rating of 350 pounds. One is on the outside with a rivet gun. The other inside with a bucking bar to flatten each rivet.
Rivet installation tool. These rivets are used on Airstream trailers from 1948 to Present all models primarily as a exterior main body service rivets. All you need is a good rivet tool or rivet gun the right rivets and some instructions.
Sealing the interior rivets and holes and sealing the exterior windows and doors. Once youre finished with polishing or any other work done to the exterior youll move on to sealing the exterior windows and. Finally the last three letters ABS identify the material used in the shell the cylindrical part of the rivet thats inserted into the hole and the stem the mandrel that is pulled out to collapse the rivet.
All Airstream rivet codes begin with AD to signify they are Aluminum A and Dimple D. Airstream White 18 Rivet Each or Box of 500 - 330128-080. The rivets that attach the aluminum panels of an Airstream body together are called buck rivets named after the bucking process that shapes the head.
While labor-intensive its done with great care to avoid denting or otherwise weakening the aluminum. With the back window fixed and riveted into the new rear back panel its time to make our test fit of the street-side rear panel a little more permanent. Youll love the control it gives you.