I bought some in the Aviation aisle at Home Depot - made rudder pedals from
it, will make floor boards later.
On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 5:07 PM G Mann via Mercedes
wrote:
> Suggest you drill out the rivets on the remaining plate, use it as a
> pattern to make a mirror image piece to match the missing part. Raw
> material to match should be found at your local metal supply,, and they
> might be induced [bribed] to shear the diamond plate aluminum to your
> pattern.
> Shape to fit [if it has bends or rolled edges], use the existing rivet
> holes to drill the new piece, pop in some rivets, "Bobs yer Unkle"
>
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 2:58 PM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Y’all remember the disappearing diamond plate side step on my trailer.
> > Looked it and it was riveted in place not glued. The other side had some
> > missing and loose rivets so I am guessing it worked itself loose and flew
> > off. I replaced several rivets around the trailer. Need to find a
> replaced
> > diamond plate. Anybody know where this could be had? Assume I would need
> to
> > find a small rectangular piece and cut it to shape.
> >
> >
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