[AT] Thanks!

[charliehill]

Larry, seems like a 1" socket on an air rachet would be even better or does 
it need to go fairly slow.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Thanks!


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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