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Old 11-07-2021, 11:22 PM
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I salvaged rivets from old worthless sill plates by grinding them from the back side, and drilled and glued them in place. As I recall, I had later NOS sill plates (ones in a shrink pack) that did not have the rivets. Note that most of the rivets I have seen have tool marks that are not concentric with the rivet.
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I salvaged rivets from old worthless sill plates by grinding them from the back side
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Always pick up junky beat up sill plates to get these as well ! I re use the original rivets by just glueing them on the back side with super glue !
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Old 11-08-2021, 06:27 PM
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Always pick up junky beat up sill plates to get these as well ! I re use the original rivets by just glueing them on the back side with super glue !
How were you able to get the original rivets out?
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