Leaking rivots

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Any way to seal leaking rivots? Someone has tried to epoxie them from the outside and it cracks and gets rubed off the hull. Quite a few leaking. All under the decking.
 

tashasdaddy

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Re: Leaking rivots

the best is to pull the decking, and reseal with gulvit. or drill out rivets, and re-revit, with solid rivets.
 

thrasher

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Re: Leaking rivots

The only sure way is to remove the rivets and install new ones with a sealing compound. Anything you try to smear over the rivets will crack and leak again. It's a case of doing it once and doing it right. Anything else is a temporary fix that will leak fairly quickly.

Gary
 
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