#Leather rivet press drivers
#Leather rivet press driver
#Leather rivet press series

I have figured out something ELSE for the wall mounted riveter to do as a second career. Resurrecting the thread to go in another direction. Kate, something can be done with your wall mounted riveter so you can use it. Those are pretty darn cute! and not badly priced at all. The post mount tool for brake linings - did the top part (ram) have a collared insert that clipped on via the (bent) through pin? I'd love to have this thing have a real job, other than looking novel - don't need any more bookends.īruce, I found the splash parts as a hand tool at Brettuns Village site Now, that's great info Ryano, THANK YOU! I'll have to play around with that riveter a bit and see how it works.

#Leather rivet press drivers

The reason for this is it takes less presser to 'splash the rivet.' Weaver's sells the newer replacement drivers for the Rex riveters for around 14 bucks to splash the rivet. The newer drivers have 6 circular drill marks in them to splash the rivet into 6 splits and roll them over.

The older style rivet drivers just rolled the edges of the rivet over like an eyelet. The wall mount riveter you have is for brake linings. If it doesn't, rust or crud is stopping it. The tube should push down for enough to be at the same level as the casting.

#Leather rivet press driver

If you put a shorter rivet into the tube, lets say a 1/4 long, the driver will push the tube down and still hit the shorter rivet. The driver does not fit into this tube, it pushes the tube down rather empty or with material between it. Yes the tube is pretty long to accomodate 9/16 long rivets. So, Ryano, got any ideas on this one? I'm clueless That way it won't get my coat yucky if I use it for a hat rack It was really REALLY cruddy and oily and rusty, so I steel brushed heck out of it and shot it with some paint to stop the rust down a little bit. No markings of any kind on the casting, machining is fair, casting is only so-so as to finishing. This one is supposed to be wall or post mounted, and evidently had some sort of fitting on the ram - the splash anvil is threaded and screws up to adjust from the bottom for depth. SOMETHING has to have been in the tube to space it up to the depth of a rivet's cap, if that's how it was working. Well, that's gonna have to be a long rivet, and there's going to be about a half inch of rivet stem between the leather and the cap - because that little anvil bar on the top that the handle actuates does NOT fit inside the tube - no way, no how. Brake shoe riveters are of a different design. These Rex Riveters are for leather, not brake shoes. No holes need to be punched first, the rivets are self-piercing. It uses the 104 rivets that Weaver's sell. The anvil is at the top and comes down when you push the handle down, hitting the rivet and splashing the end of the rivet. The tube is spring loaded and holds the rivet upright. The long tube is where you put the rivet, head first. STill got to get a pic of the other thing - it's really pretty neat (for a boat anchor I'm thinking maybe I'll make up an anvil from a chunk of brass and see if it will press the little light tubular rivets - tired of smacking my poor old arthritic thumbs! The band brakes etc would still need to have a more or less flush surface - ie, rivet set into a hole in the liner, below the friction surface. yes, I'm old, and USED to be a mechanic of sorts (runs in the family, for better or worse). I have worked with some of the old riveted brake setups - ugh.

#Leather rivet press series

Episodes Season 1 (2001) Series Ep.Well, that makes sense, but the hole in the lower tube is like half an inch deep - makes me think there was an insert of some type. In the United Kingdom, it is broadcast on Discovery Channel, Quest, and DMAX. The program is produced in the Canadian province of Quebec by Productions MAJ, Inc. How It's Made is a documentary television series that premiered on January 6, 2001, on the Discovery Channel in Canada and Science in the United States.