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Rod wrote:Couldn't you use a suitable sized coach bolt. Tighten initially with the nut and washer, then remove the nut, cut off any excess and bash the bolt to form a rivet head.
Rod
Andyp wrote:Being as it's a ball pein hammer that is used isn't it peining?
TrimTheKing wrote:I've always seen it written and said as 'peening', while the hammer spelled 'pein'. I was told by an old timer that it's pronounce 'pain' but I don't know if that's true...
Cheers
Mark
TrimTheKing wrote:What about splitting, steaming and shaping the handle. I think that's how it used to be done and looks great! Would be an interesting project/technique to learn too!
Like this...
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Mark
RogerS wrote:Bob, I now have rivets (dome head at one end and straight for the rest). I have a 'snap' but see it has two 'holes'.
One - a 'plain' hole - is the same diameter as my rivet and the other a concave dome shape. I've Googled but keep coming back to loads of videos on leather rivets or pop rivets so .....
...am I right in saying that I slide the plain hole over the rivet end and then start whacking it to get the rivet started ? Or do I run the risk of the rivet expanding inside the hole never to be removed ? Or is that plain hole for something else entirely?
Do I have to heat the rivet up to red hot heat ?
9fingers wrote:....
In your application I'd aim to use it cold unless you have oxyacetylene and can get just the tip hot. Start the process by peening over the edges and then complete the job with the snap. Practise first I think.
Bob
Stargazer wrote:Rod,
That is how I remember being taught, the snaps come as a pair, when riveting two metal plates the first step is to put a snap in the vice, then using the dome depression hold the two plates together with a rivet installed mark the length and then remove and cut to the correct length. Then reassemble in the same way and using the cylindrical hole in the second snap close the two plates together on the rivet before using the second snap with the hemispherical depression to finish the job.
Malc2098 wrote:
(I nearly said the Ronnie Barker thing then!!!)
Stargazer wrote:Rod,
That is how I remember being taught, the snaps come as a pair, when riveting two metal plates the first step is to put a snap in the vice, then using the dome depression hold the two plates together with a rivet installed mark the length and then remove and cut to the correct length. Then reassemble in the same way and using the cylindrical hole in the second snap close the two plates together on the rivet before using the second snap with the hemispherical depression to finish the job.
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