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AndyfromTucson
Explorer
Oct 19, 2016

Advice needed on separated weld in cabover framing

When I removed the delaminated filon and luan from my Class-C cabover I saw that one of the welds in the cabover framing is separated: Is it possible to have someone re-weld this, or does the...
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Tom_M1
Explorer
Oct 21, 2016
AndyfromTucson wrote:
If that doesn't pan out I will probably go with j-d's idea of a triangular fish plate and some pop rivets. If I make the fish plate about the thickness of the luan, then when I re-skin I will just not put luan over the fish plate and glue the filon directly to the fish plate. The pop rivet heads will make bulges in the filon, but I can live with that.
There are countersunk pop rivets available. I purchased some from Grainger. You will also need to purchase a countersink bit.

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