Thread: Rivet Removal?
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Default Rivet Removal?

On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 12:18:08 -0500, "leonard hofstadter"
wrote:

One of the shocks snapped off my truck cap/shell rear window. The rivet
heads popped off where it fastens on the frame around window. The rivet
seems to go through the weather-strip in the frame and there is nowhere for
the remaining shank to go, drilling just spins it. Now what the @#$@ do I
do? Thanks ;-p


... a couple of thoughts

Punch the shank with a nail or set punch, trying to bend it a little
to hopefully stop the spinning of the shank.

Push harder on the drill

..02