You’re now ready to customize and paint the car as you see fit. Once apart you’ll usually be left with the four parts that make up a car – the metal body, plastic chassis, plastic windows, and plastic interior. Use your needle-nose pliers to get some leverage but you don’t want to bend/break the plastic or metal – especially the axle. Parts of a diecast carĪfter you’ve drilled out the rivet head you should be able to separate the body from the chassis pretty easily. At this point you can also whip out your Dremel with a small grinding bit and remove whatever metal is left over. You may have to angle your drilling to get some of the edge metal left over from the rivet. Once you’ve reached plastic drill very slowly. Check your rivet every few seconds to see how much farther you have to go and stop when you see the black plastic showing through. Don’t apply pressure too hard too soon, you’re not drilling into concrete. You will also have to grind through a bit of the plastic. If you drill at an angle or off-center you’ll get an uneven grind. When drilling, make sure you are going down on the rivet as even as possible. I bought a Milwaukee 3/16 bit designed for metal and it works great – it was only $2 at Home Depot. If your bit tip is too pointy you’ll do nothing more than push the rivet head even wider, which doesn’t make disassembly any easier. In general, we want to grind the rivet head away so we don’t want a bit that has too much of a point. General purpose bits won't last very long. It's important to note that your bit be designed for drilling metal. This is your guide hole for the larger bit, so you don't need to drill down very far. I usually start with a 1/16 drill bit and drill down into the middle of the rivet on the underside of the car. Instead you must drill out the rivet head along with some fine grinding. This means there is no screw for easily disassembly. The rivets are sort of like pop-rivets in that their head is just stamped and folder over. Most Hot Wheels and other 1:64 diecasts have two rivet posts that hold the metal body to the plastic chassis. Now all you need is a drill and a few select bit sizes. Sure, throwing them against the wall like we did when we were kids is more fun but they’re a lot harder to put together afterwords. Taking apart your Hot Wheels cars with minimal destruction is pretty easy. Please read this updated article thread for continuing discussion about taking apart and putting back together Hot Wheels cars.
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