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Originally Posted by Petethefeet
Okay, so to do the job properly, I am going to have to drill out the olympics and replace them with buck rivets, hopefully I'm a quick learner when it comes to fitting them, any tips? I'll do some trials before starting proper. At least I'm learning and it could always have been worse.
Pete
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Pete.
The olympic rivets are 5/32 inch in diameter.
The original buck rivets were 1/8 inch in diameter.
If you change the olympics at this point to buck rivets, 5/32 diameter buck rivets will have a larger head on them, than the original 1/8 inch buck rivets.
There is nothing wrong using the olympics for the exterior metal, since they have been used for over 30 years.
What I would suggesy, is that you cover, from the inside, all the olympics, the seams, the horizontal stringers, and the main bows, with a generous coating of Vulkem sealer.
That will add considerable strength to the shell.
Hopefully, you also added vulkem in between the seams of any sheetmetal that you replaced.
If you do the vulkem coating, you will have a shell that is stronger, and certainly will be water tight.
You can also, add regular buck rivets, between the olympics, at the floor line. You can hide that line of rivets by adding some rub rail molding, that's used on current trailers.
Hopefully, this suggestion solves the problem.
Epoxy will not bond to the metal, and stay there very long either.
Andy