[AT] Rivet how-to

[carl gogol]

The way we removed damaged sickle bar sections (when we still removed them 
from the mower) was to set the cutter bar assembly vertically along the 
straight edge portion of an anvil so the bar rested on the anvil and the 
knives lied along the edge and pointed towards the floor.  A stout hammer 
blow from above onto the damaged section would shear both rivets of that 
section and then it was easy to punch the heads out with a nail or other 
high tech tool.  This works best if you can support the bad section and at 
least one on either side of it then hit only the bad section.  I have 
recently done this same thing with substituting a section of track rail for 
the anvil.
Carl Gogol
Manlius, NY
AC One-Seventy D
(2) AC D-14, AC 914H
Simplicity 3112 & 7116
Kubota F-2400
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> John I use a 4.5 grinder to knock the heads off  then a punch will take 
> them
> out very easily.  Think about getting a  Hydraulic ram and hand pump from
> Harbor Freight and making a simple tool to set  the rivets.
>
> Walt Davies