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Window handle screw replacement

  • 18-11-2024 03:28PM
    #1
    gluppers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭


    Hi, looking to find screws that look like this?

    image.png


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  • #2
    10-10-20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,486 ✭✭✭10-10-20


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058381224/window-handle-screw-replacement

    Hi, those appear to be rivets and not screws. Maybe a better photo will confirm it for us.

    Are you trying to replace the handle or what?



  • #3
    gluppers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭gluppers


    Sorry, not much better, camera isn't great. They are over 30 years old anyway

    image.png


  • #4
    10-10-20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,486 ✭✭✭10-10-20


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122853083#Comment_122853083

    Yes, definitely a rivet. They can only be drilled out unfortunately.



  • #5
    10-10-20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,486 ✭✭✭10-10-20


    You can get a rivet kit for easy money:

    https://www.screwfix.ie/p/magnusson-hand-riveter-10-1-2-265mm-/589pr

    You would just need blind rivets of a suitable diameter then to replace the existing ones.

    https://www.screwfix.ie/p/easyfix-blind-rivets-3-2mm-x-10mm-500-pack/14233



  • #6
    gluppers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭gluppers


    Thanks!



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  • #7
    massy086
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    whatever you do remove the glass before you drill out the old rivets. or you will break the glass



  • #8
    10-10-20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,486 ✭✭✭10-10-20


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122864186#Comment_122864186

    I know what youre saying but those rivets should be behind the glass, otherwise the rivets themselves wouldnt be there in the first place. Anyway the rivets should be drilled using a wider diameter bit than the hole, so the bit doesn't impinge on the glass anyway.



  • #9
    massy086
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭massy086


    years of experience here. if u drill the rivets with the glass in you will more than likely break the glass.



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