[AT] Thanks!

[Ralph Goff]

I've had one of the rivet tools for years. The major machine companies used 
to sell them with their own name on the side. JD and Versatile come to mind. 
Mine is just a no-name red one. Broke one of the punch points and had to 
replace it but thats all. Now I have mostly bolt on sections in the swather 
and combine knives which are a little easier to repair.
We won't be wearing out any knife sections here for a while as early winter 
has brought harvest to a halt last week . Several inches of snow on the 
ground with daytime highs of 25 if we are lucky. Back roads frozen up rutted 
and rough. Still 25% of the crop in Sask. to harvest if it ever dries 
enough. (Maybe next spring).

Ralph in Sask.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 8:38 AM
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>I almost think there was one over at the farm but I don't know why.  We had
> nothing to use it on.  I'll be looking.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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> Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 9:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Thanks!
>
>
> !!! Charlie, you gotta keep your eyes open for these things in antique
> shops. The shop owners have no idea what they are and price them very
> cheaply. The last one I bought looked brand new and only cost me $15.
>
> Larry
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: charliehill <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> Date: Saturday, October 10, 2009 7:11
> Subject: Re: [AT] Thanks!
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>
>> You know, we never had and sickle bar mowers or combines
>> with bean heads,
>> etc. on our farm. I've seen those spinners before and
>> never knew exactly
>> what they were.
>>
>> Charlie
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
>> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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>> Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 7:09 AM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Thanks!
>>
>>
>> > One of the advantages of the rivet spinner tool is that you
>> can change
>> > the section(s) out (in the shop or in the field) without
>> removing the
>> > bar from the mower, you don't need a hammer, chisel, special
>> punch, or
>> > supporting block - just a box wrench to run the two
>> tools down. One
>> > tool punches out the old rivet, and the second one supplies
>> the pressure
>> > to set the section securely in place against the bar, then
>> puts pressure
>> > on the rivet to enlarge it, and finally round the end to
>> produce an even
>> > surface that won't catch on anything. As they say in the ads:
>> "try it,
>> > you'll like it".
>> >
>> > Mike
>> >
>> > Indiana Robinson wrote:
>> >
>> >> I mostly just change sections with the sickle still in the
>> mower. I
>> >> have an old king-pin that I ground flats on the sides at one
>> end so it
>> >> fits up between the guards. It sits on a heavy oak block with the
>> >> ground flat end up with the weight of the mower bar sitting
>> on it. It
>> >> has a shallow dimple in that end that centers on the rivet
>> head and
>> >> holds it solidly up in the bar. I give the rivet a solid
>> whack with a
>> >> hammer while being sure that the section stays down flat.
>> That whack
>> >> swells the body of the rivet which tightens it solidly
>> in the holes
>> >> of both parts. After I have both rivets done like that I then
>> flip the
>> >> hammer over and peen it down some then I use a regular rivet
>> set to
>> >> finish the head of the rivet.
>> >> -
>> >> Removal of the old section if it is still attached is as
>> simple as
>> >> popping the rivet heads off with a sharp cold chisel and
>> tapping the
>> >> old rivets out with a small drift punch.
>> >> -
>> >> I can change a section and be mowing again in the time it usually
>> >> requires to pull the sickle out of the mower.
>> >> -
>> >> BTW, I do not consider it sufficient to just form a head on the
>> >> rivets. Unless you swell the shank of the rivet in the holes
>> so that
>> >> there can be no movement at all the section can loosen with use.
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