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Deck fastening solutions

Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:03 pm
by Christoffer Ahlfors
I have come across a couple of practical solutions for fastening the deck that I hope can be of some help.
The first one is a rivet nut (nut rivet?). Mine looks like this, but there are several variants out there.
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Some have splines. Use the ones you can get. The one I used is supposed to be attached with a specialized press tool, causing the metal to "cold float". My specialized tool is called "channel lock pliers". I know, it will hardly produce the quality the manufacturer guarantees, but since the screws are attached from the other side, the rivets are pulled into the sheet metal.
I redrilled the deck angle brackets to accomodate these rivets and now I don't need to fiddle with nuts anymore. Nice! :D

The second solution has to do with removal of the rear deck. Removing twelve square headed bolts to remove the rear deck is hardly tempting - even if you use the rivet nuts above. I have pondered over this issue for a long time and finally came up with a solution I like: Simply reverse the rear bulkhead like this:
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There are rivet nuts in locations A and B. The rear deck is attached with a countersunk screw at A and at B there is a longer screw that goes through both decks. Of course, the upper (forward) deck could be drilled at A as well and have a longer bolt go through both there as well.

This works well for my 2010 Tiger, but is likely workable for other vintages as well and I hope someone finds this useful.

Cheers,
/Chris

Re: Deck fastening solutions

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 10:59 am
by phil fitzpatrick
Hi Christopher
Neat solution,thanks for posting that.
Cheers
Phil

Re: Deck fastening solutions

Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2012 4:25 pm
by Tim Bowman
Nice one Chris! Very neat and clean :D

Well done

best regards
Tim