Cut the tape with a scissors or a razor knife photo 2.
Detaching the rivets on a gutter spout.
The first step is to remove the existing rivets.
Press the head of the rivet into the drill hole and squeeze the handle of your rivet gun to lock the rivet into place.
After the holes are drilled for your rivets it s time to remove those clamps and start placing your rivets into place.
Drill out the rivets connecting the bottom elbow to the downspout with an appropriate size steel cutting drill bit.
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Rivets at the front of the gutter and installing the first rivet with the rivet gun.
Repeat the drill and rivet on the other side of the downspout to connect it to the main gutter.
Repeat for the opposite side until all rivets have been removed.
The drill bit will cut the rivet head away from the rivet body in a few seconds and the rivet is free.
Step 4 insert the rivets.
There is usually rivets on each side and on the front of the downspout.
Clamping these rivets down during the drilling process ensures that your gutter will not move and your drilling will be precise.
Slide a rivet shaft into the rivet gun.
Now drill the remaining holes and install the rivets.
You ll be left with the original 1 8 hole the rivets went into.
Join the gutter to the corner with six rivets in the locations shown.
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Us the hole in the rivet in the same manner as you would a centerpunch to guide the drill bit and drill the rivet out.
Drill through the side of the downspout and into the connector.
Place the tip of the drill bit over the center indention on the rivet head and drill all the way through the rivet.
Begin by detaching the compromised section of gutter so you can have full access to the leaky seam.
Start by drilling a 1 8 in.
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Begin by selecting a hss high speed steel drill bit with a diameter slightly larger than the hole in the rivet head.
