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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jodeb720 wrote:
As others have said, I punched the center of each rivet, drilled it out with a very small drill bit - as a pilot hole, and then increase the bits until I could see the entire rivet.
Then took a punch an pushed it into the frame and it was done.
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If you have a 4-1/2" grinder, I would grind off the heads instead of drilling them out. You're less apt to make a mistake and it comes off much faster.
In this (and similar) cases, I just started with a largeish drill bit, larger than the shaft of the rivet, and drill until the exposed head is detached from the shaft. Any excess drilling just chews up a bit of the flap of the hinge you're replacing anyhow. Of course, once headless, the body of the rivet has to be removed from the other side; or, in this case, pushed into the void of whatever is beyond the doorframe with a punch or whatever.
