[AT] Thanks!

[Larry Goss]

Yeah, I've got two or three of those, Steve, but when I was a kid, all we had available on the farm was a ball peen hammer.  If you hit the rivet with a heavy blow, it just bent the rivet.  You had to "work" it with small blows to form the rivet head by hand a little bit at a time.  "Tick-tick-tick" came from an old Bill Cosby routine about throwing bullets in the furnace during shop class in high school.

What I use now is a rivet setter that swedges the rivet with a one-inch wrench -- one operation for the whole process and the rivet is spin-formed in the process.  Neat operation.  I can install all new sections on a sickle knife in less than half an hour.  I've been known to do it "while you wait" at tractor shows.

Larry

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve W." <falcon at telenet.net>
Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009 14:32
Subject: Re: [AT] Thanks!
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> Larry Goss wrote:
> > It just goes to show you that I have NOT learned all of life's
> > lessons yet, Chuck.  In my heart, I would still like to 
> be able to
> > set a rivet on a sickle bar with just one blow rather than
> > tick-tick-tick away at it for a half hour or more.
> > 
> > Larry
> > 
> 
> What do you mean tick - tick - tick...
> 
> You want to do a NICE rivet set in a couple seconds?
> 
> Get a rivet header for your air hammer. I made one out of a POS chisel
> that wouldn't hold up. Cut the shank square, then used a ball 
> end cutter
> in a Dremel to grind a nice cup in the end. Heated it red hot 
> and oil
> quenched. Works GREAT. Made a backer for it out of a chunk of 
> rail iron.
> 
> I spaced a pair of holes so I can do both rivets in about 15 seconds.
> 
> -- 
> Steve W.
> 
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