31-01-2022, 04:02 PM
My father was a plumber in days of old and a great believer in cold rivets in spouting etc to deter cracking of the solder. Very small rivets but I have observed him hand set many. Some of the earliest rust reapirs on my RP were done with small rivets.
It seems surprising that the factory would go to all the trouble of hot rivetting in such small size.
Presumably if to be done hot and not too many a snap made out of tough steel like an old crank or axle shaft as is would do. The shallow shaped hole could be drilled with a shaped drill.
Not prettty but soft steel rivets can be simply burred with a ball pein hammer.
It is not easy for amateurs to get pieces of steel very red hot, and silver steel is expensive and very prone to cracking. Most old axe heads are through hardened steel. Can a depression be burrowed with a carbide drill and/or a Dremel?
For modern souls the rivet snap was a piece of steel about the size of a heavy hammer head. Alongside the round depression was a simple drilling used first to ensure the steel sheets were tightly together.
I have used lengths of ht bolt etc to replace pivots in cheap compound hedge shears but the ht steel can only be slightly burred.
It seems surprising that the factory would go to all the trouble of hot rivetting in such small size.
Presumably if to be done hot and not too many a snap made out of tough steel like an old crank or axle shaft as is would do. The shallow shaped hole could be drilled with a shaped drill.
Not prettty but soft steel rivets can be simply burred with a ball pein hammer.
It is not easy for amateurs to get pieces of steel very red hot, and silver steel is expensive and very prone to cracking. Most old axe heads are through hardened steel. Can a depression be burrowed with a carbide drill and/or a Dremel?
For modern souls the rivet snap was a piece of steel about the size of a heavy hammer head. Alongside the round depression was a simple drilling used first to ensure the steel sheets were tightly together.
I have used lengths of ht bolt etc to replace pivots in cheap compound hedge shears but the ht steel can only be slightly burred.