Originally Posted by EdPruss
Someone here or other similar place was having good luck with normal rivets, which apparently are available somewhere, heating with a torch and then inserting and setting them with a normal rivet gun and bucking bar. Obviously two guys would be helpful.

Ed
That would have been me. smile Although others have used hot rivets as well. There were three of us. One with the bucking bar, one with the torch, and a third with the air hammer.
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