replace RV entrance door hinges?
My trailer's entrance door is sagging. The hinges are worn out. I use this trailer to haul cargo daily for work, and I estimate that the door has been opened and closed upwards of 40,000 times. ...
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Yes indeed, pop rivets are super easy to install, arguably easier than screws (though of course harder to remove and impossible to reuse).
Consider yourself fortunate that you could get a replacement hinge. I had to replace one of the door hinges on my motorhome last year after an unfortuate encounter with a concrete barrier on a very tight bit of roadway with a good bit of traffic, and when I took the mangled one into my local RV dealer and parts place they actually had a little laugh at me for hoping to find a replacement hinge for the 20 year old door. I ended up having to make one using a vice, hammer, flat metal stock, and some brute force. It worked out rather better than I expected, functioning just fine, although it won't win any beauty contests!
At any rate, pop rivets are installed blind. Traditional rivets require a bucking block or bar on the back side to install, but they are not what is used in this case.
Consider yourself fortunate that you could get a replacement hinge. I had to replace one of the door hinges on my motorhome last year after an unfortuate encounter with a concrete barrier on a very tight bit of roadway with a good bit of traffic, and when I took the mangled one into my local RV dealer and parts place they actually had a little laugh at me for hoping to find a replacement hinge for the 20 year old door. I ended up having to make one using a vice, hammer, flat metal stock, and some brute force. It worked out rather better than I expected, functioning just fine, although it won't win any beauty contests!
At any rate, pop rivets are installed blind. Traditional rivets require a bucking block or bar on the back side to install, but they are not what is used in this case.
