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You know, a lot of houses here in the Tri-State have got aluminum gutters and aluminum downspouts
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And sometimes they can either get damaged, you might have to work on them, or in the case of
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this house where the people are getting ready to repaint, they get in the way of the
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paint job and sometimes you want to take them apart. Well, how do you do it
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All you really need is a drill like this that's got a 1 eighth inch drill bit. Why
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Because most of these aluminum downspouts are put together and held together. with pop rivets and pop rivets are very small little fasteners
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and you don't screw them in or screw them out they're held in by tension and compression
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well to remove a pop rivet all you have to do is put an eighth inch drill bit in the
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drill go ahead and center the drill bit on the center the pop rivet
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and start to drill it out and because the pop rivets made from aluminum
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it drills very quickly once the pop rivets out the downspouts should come
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right out of the out of position it should come right into your hands okay now that it's
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out of the way and you want to put it back up what do you do well that's even easier
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the hill holes are already drilled and all you need to do is use a regular
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pop rivet tool with color-coded pop rivets that match your work install the
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pop rivet into the tool pull the handle the pop riveter and bingo the job's
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done okay working on aluminum downspouts it's really simple all you really
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need is a drill and this handy pop rivet gun they're inexpensive available at
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any home center hardware store get one if you want want to discover more home improvement tips go to ask the builder.com
