Otter LRC CM4647296 comes home

[Jordan Baker]

I hope this post is riveting….. The hood latches were all cast parts with the pivot base riveted to the side hood panels. What was supposed to be a simple job turned into a two days and still not done job. All went well then I ran short on the rivets. Finally after hours of searching for 7/32 dia ones, found a supply of them at PeavyMart. Had to call three stores before staff could confirm they actually had a box. Drove to Brantford to pick them up and had a nice family outing. Tonight, I managed to get 4 of the 6 in before running out of acetylene for the torch. Tomorrow will be day 3 of a 1 day job… as for the actual riveting. I setup using the shop press to hold everything in nice and tight. Then the torch to heat up the long end of the rivet until it’s almost melting. A ball peen hammer finished off peening the rivets down.