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I stole this from the Ford board i'm on. If anyone has done heavy mods to there frame/sub-frame then they'll understand, enjoy.........
OK, OK, while all the above mentioned methods work ok they are all lacking the basics preplanning preperatory work that MUST be completed before any frame and rivet work can ber started.
First things first, you must gather up some basic materials, here's a short list;
1. Several pounds of dirt (better if a mixture of sand, clay, small rocks, various animal droppings, road grime, rusty scale, etc)
2. Several handfuls of metal shavings
3. 4# and 9# hammers
4. Now this is very important....a wood rasp
5. Frosty beverages
6. some friends
7. A variety of chisels and punches
8. duct tape
9. a bucket of sludgy, slimy, gritty gunk
10. Grinder with a variety of wheels
OK, now the real work can commence.
First of all lets get the basics out of the way, mix up the sand with the metal shavings, now carefully holding one eye open pack the sand/metal mixture into one of your eyes. Make sure you get enough of the mixture in there to soak up several ounces of tears. Once your eye starts water profusely dip your free hand in the buckey of slimey, gritty, gunk and smear it around yoru face andinto your other eye. Got it? both eyes watering and you can barely see? good, on to step two
Step 2. Feel around for yoru hammers, place your free hand on your work bench so that your fingers are splayed and position yoru thumb so that the thumbnail is perpindicular to the bench top. Now start whamming with the hammer. Don't be timid here, smack yoruhand with all you have. Do it several times trying to flatten all 4 fingers, don't neglect the thumb, make sure you get a few good swings at it (I know this is hard as its hard to aim with your eyes blurry and watering but it important)
Step 3. Dance around and shake hand furiously (cussing is optional)
Step 4. With your throbbing hand graps the wood rasp firmly and work it back and forth across the knuckles of your other hand. You don't have to go down to the bone but you want to go deep.
Repeat Step 3
Step 5. dip your bleeding hand into the slimey, gritty, gunk bucket and then into the sand/metal shavings mixture, pack the open wounds deeply then repeat the process on your other hand.
Repeat Step 3.
Step 6. consume several frosty beverages and try and convince friends to come help you, regale them with your tales of the mornings work (they will come over...afterall who could resist witnessing a performance like that?)
Step 7. wrap your bleeding, shredded, throbbing hands in duct tape (to try in vain to protect them from future hammer strikes), wrap the chisels and punches in ductape (to try, in vain, to make them easier to grasp in your throbbing, greasy, grimy gritty, bleeding hands)...while you are at it, wrap the handles of the hammers as well.
Step 8. With the grinder, attack the heads of the rivets, either in the criss cross fashion or just outright grinding them down to frame level, now this is important, make sure you make at least one pass across the tops of yoru knuckles with the grinding wheel....
Repeat step 3 and maybe step 6
Step 9. Using the previously modified chisels and punches start whcking the tar out of the body of the rivet. Don't be bashful here, bang the tar out of it, make so much noise that you won't be able to hear it when your buddies finally show up and scare the tar out of you thus causing you to once more smash the tarnation out of your already bleady and throbbing hand.
Repeat Steps 3 and 6..............................
OK, OK, while all the above mentioned methods work ok they are all lacking the basics preplanning preperatory work that MUST be completed before any frame and rivet work can ber started.
First things first, you must gather up some basic materials, here's a short list;
1. Several pounds of dirt (better if a mixture of sand, clay, small rocks, various animal droppings, road grime, rusty scale, etc)
2. Several handfuls of metal shavings
3. 4# and 9# hammers
4. Now this is very important....a wood rasp
5. Frosty beverages
6. some friends
7. A variety of chisels and punches
8. duct tape
9. a bucket of sludgy, slimy, gritty gunk
10. Grinder with a variety of wheels
OK, now the real work can commence.
First of all lets get the basics out of the way, mix up the sand with the metal shavings, now carefully holding one eye open pack the sand/metal mixture into one of your eyes. Make sure you get enough of the mixture in there to soak up several ounces of tears. Once your eye starts water profusely dip your free hand in the buckey of slimey, gritty, gunk and smear it around yoru face andinto your other eye. Got it? both eyes watering and you can barely see? good, on to step two
Step 2. Feel around for yoru hammers, place your free hand on your work bench so that your fingers are splayed and position yoru thumb so that the thumbnail is perpindicular to the bench top. Now start whamming with the hammer. Don't be timid here, smack yoruhand with all you have. Do it several times trying to flatten all 4 fingers, don't neglect the thumb, make sure you get a few good swings at it (I know this is hard as its hard to aim with your eyes blurry and watering but it important)
Step 3. Dance around and shake hand furiously (cussing is optional)
Step 4. With your throbbing hand graps the wood rasp firmly and work it back and forth across the knuckles of your other hand. You don't have to go down to the bone but you want to go deep.
Repeat Step 3
Step 5. dip your bleeding hand into the slimey, gritty, gunk bucket and then into the sand/metal shavings mixture, pack the open wounds deeply then repeat the process on your other hand.
Repeat Step 3.
Step 6. consume several frosty beverages and try and convince friends to come help you, regale them with your tales of the mornings work (they will come over...afterall who could resist witnessing a performance like that?)
Step 7. wrap your bleeding, shredded, throbbing hands in duct tape (to try in vain to protect them from future hammer strikes), wrap the chisels and punches in ductape (to try, in vain, to make them easier to grasp in your throbbing, greasy, grimy gritty, bleeding hands)...while you are at it, wrap the handles of the hammers as well.
Step 8. With the grinder, attack the heads of the rivets, either in the criss cross fashion or just outright grinding them down to frame level, now this is important, make sure you make at least one pass across the tops of yoru knuckles with the grinding wheel....
Repeat step 3 and maybe step 6
Step 9. Using the previously modified chisels and punches start whcking the tar out of the body of the rivet. Don't be bashful here, bang the tar out of it, make so much noise that you won't be able to hear it when your buddies finally show up and scare the tar out of you thus causing you to once more smash the tarnation out of your already bleady and throbbing hand.
Repeat Steps 3 and 6..............................