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Those of you who drill out rivet heads, have them pop off, and easily
push out the stems with no problem, just hit the delete button and don't
waste time reading this.
If, on the other hand, you drill the head slightly off center, have to
chisel it off, and then expend your entire vocabulary of swear words on
those *&^%$ rivets that you can't push out, here's something I
discovered.
Particularly on an unsupported flange, using a mandrel or punch and a
hammer doesn't help since the flange moves. Some others are in tight
spaces, where you can't get a pair of pliers in , or the pliers slip
off. Or sometimes, the &^%$#@ rivet just won't cooperate.
Maybe somebody already thought of this but it's new to me, and it
works: In a fit if desperation I drilled a 1/8" hole in the top cup of
an old pair of Cleco pliers. Then I took a 1-1/2 inch long piece of
aluminum (1/4" rod will do, but I used an old aluminum rain gutter
nail), put it in the drill press, and filed about 7/16th of it down to
1/8" thick. I then reversed it, and filed down the other end to 1/8",
leaving a little less than 1/8 in the middle unfiled, to use as a
collar. With the collar end inserted into the Cleco pliers cup. I put
the tool over the rivet stem, lined up the bottom jaw around the
offending rivet, and squeezed. The rivet came out with one squeeze. I'm
next going to make one out of steel, for next time. Maybe make another
in A-5 size if necessary. Using the poor man's lathe, it took about 30
minutes.
Paul R
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