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Thread: Tinmens rivets
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15th May 2017, 04:24 PM #1Senior Member
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Tinmens rivets
I have a whole bunch on Tinmens rivets, from the rainwater tank building days mostly. Does anyone still have a use for these?
There are also some far more solid blind rivets scattered throughout piles of 'junk' fasteners ( would be predominantly imperial)
Will post in market place as well, but curious if there is uses for these still.
All I can think of is the occasional nameplate rivets.
Some metal louvre panels too if anyone is interested
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15th May 2017, 04:31 PM #2Senior Member
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Tanks and fabrications for ye olde stuff like; Furphys water carts, steam engine/ boiler ancillaries, stationery engines, model engineers projects. The list goes on!
Also consider blacksmiths and SteamPunk buffs.
regs,
Andrew'Waratah' spring hammer by Hands & Scott c.1911- 20, 'Duffy, Todd & Williams' spring hammer c.1920, Premo lathe- 1953, Premo filing machine.
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17th May 2017, 09:32 PM #3Senior Member
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thanks Andrew, model engineers of course.
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19th May 2017, 10:05 AM #4Most Valued Member
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my Dad would'nt let me use pop rivets. ....Thats all he used.
Tinsmiths rivets he called them.
You also need the punch/dolley (or whatever it was called) to round off the the pin.
I will need to remember that these will be sought after when I'm too old along with all his rivets.
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19th May 2017, 09:00 PM #5Most Valued Member
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From memory I think the tool was called a setter, have a couple floating around in the shed. The punch has a hole in it which is placed over the rivet, once it's through the sheet metal, then hit with a hammer, another larger hammer/dolly is placed behind it to take the force of the hammering, setting the rivet. Once the rivet has been hammered over (peining) using the ball end of the ball pein hammer,(which is why it's called that) the punches domed section is used dome finish the rivet. This is how it was explained to me, back when I was younger.
KrynTo grow old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
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19th May 2017, 09:54 PM #6Most Valued Member
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Yeah setter sounds familiar
Dad put the rivet under the sheet metal and using eye sight moving the setter back n forth over the rivet and shen he reckoned it was right he hit it with hammer using the hole section of the setter and punched it (the rivet) thru the sheet. No hole was drilled and only on light gauge stuff tho. Holes were drilled on thicker gauge.
Thats how my Dad became blind in one eye... the liitle doverlacky's that were punched out of the metal moved up the hole one by one. One of them flew out at a rapid pace hit the vice and rebounded back into his left eye making him the 1st cylops in our family...i was the second but from a different cause...and no it was NOT by looking through a keyhole.
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