[AT] Rivet how-to

Cecil Bearden crbearden at copper.net
Sun Feb 5 06:11:38 PST 2006


Drill a small hole thru th rivet first to relieve the internal pressure It 
should come out "fairly" easily..

Cecil in Okla
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>
> Well it seems I'll be in the tool making business. While hydraulics would 
> be the easiest, I'll have to stick with something with a bolt for 
> compression. Hopefully a 3/4 air wrench will do this as I have lots to do. 
> I did notice yesterday afternoon the front wheels have different rivets.
> got to thinking that removing these things might be fun. At first I was 
> thinking about just torching the heads, but if the rivets are swaged in 
> the hole, it's gonna get interesting.
>
> Thanks for all the input fellows, I'll let you know how this turns out.
>
> John
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