[Windflier]

To completely dismantle and re-rivet all of them will be quite costly, time consuming, and fraught with many difficulties, not the least of which occur when drilling out the existing rivets.

Given the prize, I doubt they'll feel any fatigue from drilling out all those rivets. I drill out rivets all the time in my business. It ain't such a big deal.

[Ron C.]

Unfortunately it's a big deal...

1. The sheer number of them is huge
2. Rivets often spin, even with sharpest new bits
3. Ease of not hitting the rivet's exact center results in larger, off-center holes

To name but a few of the many problems I've faced in re-riveting.

Most of these (guessing) will be varying degrees of decayed (aluminum) and rusty (alloyed) - so gonna be a "whole-lotta spinnin' goin' on, baby!"

But - who knows, maybe they've invented a new tool that makes it simple, fast and totally error free. LOL