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Don Dando - 17 Dec 2007 04:55 GMT

The rivets you describe sound like the kind used on 18 wheelers to attach
the skin to the "E" Bar Tracks.

We have used them here at home to make our own trailers from surplus 18
wheeler sections where the original trailer is being made into a custom show
trailer.

Don Dando

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Bob La Londe - 19 Dec 2007 15:08 GMT

> The rivets you describe sound like the kind used on 18 wheelers to attach
> the skin to the "E" Bar Tracks.
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> Don Dando

So where do you find them and how do you install them?

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Richard Casady - 20 Dec 2007 14:06 GMT

>> The rivets you describe sound like the kind used on 18 wheelers to attach
>> the skin to the "E" Bar Tracks.
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>So where do you find them and how do you install them?

I think maybe Aircraft Spruce, a supplier to airplane builders. Or
find local firm than makes truck and trailer bodies. You can buy what
they call a chassis/cab and fit bodywork to it. Find some of those
guys, or a builder of semi-trailers, and ask where they get their
rivets. Find the aircraft homebuilders newsgroup. Let us know how you
make out.

Casady

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James - 24 Dec 2007 15:17 GMT

> >> The rivets you describe sound like the kind used on 18 wheelers to
> attach >> the skin to the "E" Bar Tracks.
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> Casady

When I was in the Navy working on aircraft we used them. We also used
them when I worked for a truck trailer manufacturer. One of the brand
names was Huck. They can be installed by hand but the ones we used were
so large that we had to use hydraulics or air. Jim
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