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MG TD TF 1500 - TF Body Plate (Toolbox Lid)

Hi all,

Has anyone found a supplier for the aluminium solid, dome headed rivets
for the TF Body Plate located on the TF(passenger side, RHD) Toolbox Lid ?

Did the Factory install the Body Plate so that it is generally read through the windscreen (from within the car) from left to right ? I suspect it depended on who fitted it up on a particular day?

Cheers
Rob Grantham
TF3719("Aramis"),TF9177("Athos").
Rob Grantham

The body plate on mine is stalled the same way on the LH side of the car (drivers side LHD originally).
Don't know about the aluminium rivets, something similar may be available through one of the uk engineering suppliers to model makers, etc. For example chronos.ltd.uk (but I haven't checked).
Dave H
Dave Hill

Better still - ajreeves.com have them in various sizes.
Dave H
Dave Hill

I fixed mine with conventional pop rivets but didn't use the normal pliers. Instead I knocked out the "nail" and used a simple punch to swage over loose end so both ends looked the same.

Jan T
J Targosz

The body plate and chassis plate on LHD TF9052 HDC 46/9052 (6,000 miles, unrestored) are attached with slotted round head brass machine screws.

https://www.mg-cars.org.uk/mgtf/Pictures/TF9052/TF9052_006.jpg
https://www.mg-cars.org.uk/mgtf/Pictures/TF9052/TF9052_019.jpg
https://www.mg-cars.org.uk/mgtf/Pictures/TF9052/TF9052_021.jpg

Lonnie
TF7211
LM Cook

Aluminium rivets on the body plate.
Dave H
Dave Hill

Lonnie,

Dave H is right, every TF body plate on original, relatively untouched cars I have seen have small, dome head aluminium solid rivets with the 'tail' of the rivet to the outside, top of the lid. TF9052 is the first car I have seen with the brass'bolts !

I have owned TFs over many years and everyone had the Tbox lid affixed with solid aluminium rivets.


Of course originally the other Patent Plate and the ID Plate were affixed with
brass bolts and nuts.

Cheers
Rob Grantham
TF3719("Aramis"),TF9177("Athos").
Rob Grantham

The above should read "everyone had the Tbox lid Body Plate affixed with solid aluminium rivets".

Cheers
Rob Grantham
Rob Grantham

Body plate orientation (drivers side) on my TF with aluminum rivets

J K Barter

On Amazon they have aluminum "brazier head "rivets that look an awful lot like the original rivets, at least in the pictures they show.
J K Barter

I just Google'd brazier head and got results for them on Amazon. Indeed it does look like the originals.
Frank Cronin

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