Help finding for these double cap rivets please

[PitS]

Hello,

I hope I'm posting this in the right section. I have an old belt that has what looks like double-cap rivets with a star on them. I tried finding these or similar rivets with a design stamped on them but haven't found anything.

Can someone point me in the right direction where to buy them?

Thanks!

 

[TomG]

They look like the old Tandy Star rivets.  They discontinued them a number of years ago. I've never found a replacement for them either.  Let us know if you do!

 

[CaptQuirk]

http://www.ivan.tw/index.php

Google is your friend

[PitS]

Awesome CaptQuirk! Thank you! Google is my friend but let me down on this particular search. They have a bunch of cool stuff there. Much appreciated!

[CaptQuirk]

Here's a tip that helped me find that in 2 minutes- I typed in "double capped rivets with star design", then went to images. There will be a hundred pictures of all sorts of rivets, but I just clicked on the first one that loaded. If you stick with web search, you'll again have a  few hundred returns, but 95% of those returns will have nothing to do with what you really want. My connection is slow... 28.8 k dial up slow, so I didn't wait for most images to load.

[PitS]

3 minutes ago, CaptQuirk said:

Here's a tip that helped me find that in 2 minutes- I typed in "double capped rivets with star design", then went to images. There will be a hundred pictures of all sorts of rivets, but I just clicked on the first one that loaded. If you stick with web search, you'll again have a  few hundred returns, but 95% of those returns will have nothing to do with what you really want. My connection is slow... 28.8 k dial up slow, so I didn't wait for most images to load.

Thanks for the tip! 

[TomG]

Did almost the exact search years ago when  they were discontinued and all I got back were references to Tandy and it's various distributors. 

Good job finding them

 

[CaptQuirk]

It's what I do... Not really, but glad I could help just the same.

[TinkerTailor]

You would think gold star would make a die set that does this to any rivet, being a star and all....Not that I would ever buy a goldstar press..

[TomG]

42 minutes ago, TinkerTailor said:

You would think gold star would make a die set that does this to any rivet, being a star and all....Not that I would ever buy a goldstar press..

Actually, for the money, the GoldStar is not a bad little press. I do up to 200 double caps a month and it had been a real time-saver.  You just have to be aware of the little things like using 9mm dies for Tandy medium double caps instead of the 8mm that Tandy claims their rivets are. And their Line 20 dies don't fit Tandy Line 20 snaps without modifying the dies.

But those are really Tandy issues and not GoldStar.

 

But, if I was going to be setting caps for hours a day, I'd definitely go with a better quality press and die set, for the durability, if nothing else.