This topic came up a few months ago -- my concern with this approach is that if you drill and rivet the inserts into the plastic pipes, you have now created possible micro-fractures in the plastic around the drilled holes, which could spread over time and with repeated heat/cool cycles. Maybe this does not happen in practice, but the GoWesty kit seems to avoid the possibility entirely. Allan -- 1991 Vanagon GL
Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM> writes: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Frank Condelli <RAlanen@aol.com> wrote: > >> Just put two countersunk pop rivets in them and they will not ever >> come out again. Very simple fix ! No need to make mountains out of mole >> hills. > > > I've see this eference to putting in a couple of pop rivets but I'm having > trouble seeing this. I'm visualizing pop rivets from the outside of the > plastic through the metal inserts. But a pop rivet is going to have a hole > all the way through the center that may or may not be sealed. So what am I > missing? A type of rivet that I'm not familiar with or what? > BTW, I'm not being critical, just not able to see the pop rivets in there > without the possibility of leaks. |
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