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Originally Posted by 1493kd

We are in the process of making our first WCD (Thank you 2791 for all the help).

I like the idea of using the 1/4 birch plywood for the belly pan and was just wondering how you go about attaching it to the frame. We are riveting the top together with gussets and I am not positive the best way to attach the plywood to the bottom. Can I just rivet the plywood to the tubing or is their another way? Thanks

We typically use screws and nuts to hold the bellypan to the frame, then woodscrews to attach stuff to the bellypan. Something inside me (not sure what) likes having the ability to remove the whole piece if necessary - so I (personally) would not use rivets - but I can see the advantage of not having screws that can come loose. For an easy, but still removable method - self tapping sheet metal screws would work too.