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Originally Posted by Evans, Marv
Interesting. I have a three bar grill somewhere, and it's not in too good of shape. If I remember right, it has some ribs missing. I also think I have another old grill - five bar - that's also not in too good of shape I think I have four to six grills total somewhere. I'm wondering if I can add ribs to the three bar from the five bar to make a complete three bar. My car is a '69, but I think the original grill was an aluminum silver, five bar grill. Going to watch this thread.
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Marv, ribs are the same between 3 and 5 bar grilles so you can switch back and forth.
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Originally Posted by daepp
How will you true up the ribs?
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David, I designed and had made some tooling to straighten the ribs.
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Originally Posted by JMT
Somewhere on here I saw a guy make a single wooden jig thin enough with the correct arc. He then slide the rib over and straightened with light pressure.
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If you find look and find that thread/post, post it here. My tooling is all steel and I use a 2lb sledge to straighten the ribs to overcome the aluminum elasticity. Even then they aren't perfect as you can see next.
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Originally Posted by jjsjws
Shaun, just wondering what aluminum rivets you used to reassemble repaired grill. I used aircraft rivets (aircraft is other hobby) AN930 rivets . Had to use a rivet squeeze tool as was concerned about applying a rivet gun to such easily malleable aluminum ribs.
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I make my own rivets and use a 4X gun with sets that I made. A squeeze tool would work well too but I already had the gun to do fan rivets and vent window buttress rivets.