2020 at the Hammond Barn

[Grant Bowker]

A pause was needed to wait for rivets and hinges to be ordered. Local sources didn't stock 3/16 round head steel rivets. Hinges to match original don't seem to be available so we settled for hinges wider than original with thicker metal and larger pins. As a result, they were short perpendicular to the pin so we had to rivet in a straight line rather than in a triangular pattern similar to the closures. Riveting was done with a 4X gun that I had gotten for the 2K1 body (overkill for the aluminum rivets of the 2K1 but nice to have for this steel application). After riveting a little adjusting of the closure hoes was needed to remove rubbing, then a coating of POR was applied (in 2 stages to avoid gluing the boxes to the table).