I’ve been on travel for a week or so since the last entry. I decided to work slowly, surely and patiently on the large aluminum pushrods, measuring two or three times and taking great care in cutting and drilling. The result this time was much more successful. Here’s one end of a pushrod with the threaded end match-drilled in place, done after the interior of the tube was primed.

After deburring, the threaded ends were wet-riveted in place with pulled rivets. Why the wet-riveting? Those pulled Cherry rivets are steel, and I didn’t want any galvanic corrosion working on those pushrods.

After riveting, both pushrods got a final coat of primer.