[Jack Houpe]

After drilling a few new holes I found the aluminum material to be triple thick in some places which is .225 thick so I went with a different rivet that can sandwich the metal together without popping out from the back, used a couple pieces of scrap aluminum panel to experiment and this will never come undone again, Cherry aircraft rivets are the highest quality you can buy. Also our coach has had the rivet issue for many years most of the rivets that go around the slide opening where loose or missing, the problem is the aluminum panels shifting back and forth wallered out the hole which prevented me from using the same size cherry rivet so I drilled out the holes to 1/4" rivet and used an over sized head to cover up the hole. Now all I have to do is clean the area well and apply some type of rubber adhesive to seal off from water intrusion. then put the new round HDPE pucks to hold the trim on.