Somebody's finally found a supplier that makes Cassis look cheap. They only charge €0.50 each for pop rivets (for a bag of 20, admittedly they are slightly cheaper in bulk).

<thinks> Oh, wait. The UK "agent" for Cassis converts the prices at £1=€1...

Just imagine the original design concept for the 2CV had retained the Ally chassis.

Riveting would be one of the few ways to join differing thickness of ally together to form a chassis.

Besides plenty of the bridges in use today are held together by Victorian hand riveting.

But I saw the error of my ways, after all:

I'm going to make you reget saying that

I did tell you riveting your car to Hold it together wasnt a good idea!!!

Dave,
some of those bridges are still in existence because, after assessment, their load carrying capacity was found to be insufficient for the 11.5 tonne axle loads expected with 40 tonne lorries.
In some cases, it was corrosion of their wrought iron girders which was the problem and since that cannot be welded, repair work involved cover plates with high strength friction grip bolts.
Not one of the senior management from Leeds office was on site the day that this one was lifted off its abutments, so I guess if it had all gone 'orrribly wrong, I'd have got all of the blame...



Whitley Bridge, 1977 &amp; 1997 by slcchassis, on Flickr

You're getting me confused with Diesel Dave ...

Arrgh,
that's what 6 hours of shufffling paperwork does.
Back out to the shed for some welding tomorrow, even if I've got to dig my way through...

That 'Bailey' (or is it an Acrow?) has got a nice deflection going

knightley,
it was Mabey and Johnson ( formerly Bailey) back then, pity that they got themselves into so much trouble more recently for offering bribes to obtain overseas contracts.

No worries about the sag, it was a 'characteristic' of Bailey bridges because of their pinned construction and in any case that one was doubled to carry the dead load of the old bridge.

This one is quite a good example of what to expect...