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Good information. Thanks! Well, if you're talking about your bogie brackets and you don't plan on reusing them for anything, then no big deal. But if you're talking about your new spring brackets and you grind a groove into it or grind it flat but at an angle, then it compromises the...

Have you done it with rivets or is it still theory?

Except that if you heat the rivet shank, you'll make it larger and thereby even harder to get out. If anything, you'd need to heat the metal around the rivet or find a way to freeze the rivet.

If you don't have a flame axe, I've found an angle grinder is the next best thing. It will make short work of rivet heads, you just have to be careful to not cut into your brackets. After the head is off, some others on this thread have had some good ideas about center-drilling to relieve...

+1!! I love my Rotabroach set!! They just eat right through anything up to 1/2" thick. Anything over 1/2", you just have to cut the rest from the back side. Except that the OP is not talking about drilling rivets. He already torched them off. The discussion is about drilling the new...