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Posted by Tom on January 23, 2008, 12:54 pm
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colin.wildgust@virgin.net wrote:
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>>I'm looking for cheapish tooling for attaching semi-tubular rivets.
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>>They're to be used to join spring steel to polycarbonate or similar
>>clear sheet, and will usually be 1/8 diameter with a nickel plated
>>head.
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>>The obvious source (for both rivets and tooling) is an aircraft
>>supply place, but most of the interesting ones seem to be based
>>in the US. Is there somewhere here that would have them,preferably
>>second-hand or cheap ? I know cheap and aircraft don't usually go
>>together - is there some other area of use where lower quality is
>>common ?
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>>Quantities are small - a hand tool would be fine.
>>
>>-adrian
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> Hello Adrian this type of rivet used to be called burfacated rivets
> and they used to be used on brake shoes for holding the linings on
> they used to spin rivet them using a high speed rotary tool with
> pressure applied downwards such as on a drill press I have used these
> many years ago but you need to try different sections on the rotary
> tool but in principal in section the tool looked like a inverted 'W'
> hope you get the job sorted Cheers Colin
>
Sorry Colin, no cigar.
A bifurcated rivet has has a split shank and traditionally were more
associated with leatherwork.
You're thinking of tubular rivets.
Tom
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