Richard Casady wrote:

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:08:49 -0700, "Bob La Londe"
wrote:

"Don Dando" wrote in message
et...
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


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

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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