EfrainBG Report post Posted December 16, 2016 Hi, everyone! Just wanted to share some advances I've made on setting cooper rivets. I've seen some amazing work on these rivets everywhere and I hadn't been able to replicate such results. I went and bought a couple of fancy hammers... well, not so fancy, actually... more on the cheap side. But, anyway, I just wanted to try different head shapes and weights. I also made a setter out of a punch marker (shown to the left of the photo). I cut the marker flat to about a 3/8" diameter flat head, drove a drill on the flat head and formed the dome with a Dremel. I used this tool first to round off the post after cutting it. Once rounded, I started flatenning and expanding the post with the first hammer in the photo from left to right. To finish the setting I used the hammer in the middle (which I rounded a bit) to start forming the dome right before using the setting tool again to get a more refined finish. I edited the next photo to exagerate a little bit the texture on the rivet's dome. The one to the right is just hammered down. The one on the left was smoothed down with a light pass of the setter. Have a nice day, everyone! Efrain Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JerseyFirefighter Report post Posted December 16, 2016 Looks nice. Im trying to figure out if it's just the perspective or are those burrs considerably thicker than the ones I use. It would never dawn on me to think that there could very well be a difference from manufacturer to manufacturer. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EfrainBG Report post Posted December 16, 2016 8 minutes ago, JerseyFirefighter said: Looks nice. Im trying to figure out if it's just the perspective or are those burrs considerably thicker than the ones I use. It would never dawn on me to think that there could very well be a difference from manufacturer to manufacturer. Maybe it was a different gauge, Rob. The ones shown in the beginning post are #9. IN the picture attached in this comment, I show you the #9 and its burr to the left and the #12 and burr to the right... As you can see, #9 is about 1 mm thick and #12 about 0.5 mm Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JerseyFirefighter Report post Posted December 16, 2016 Thanks for the comparison. I use both 9's and 12's. Ill do a comparison once I get back into the shop. If you dont mind me asking... where do you get your rivets from? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EfrainBG Report post Posted December 16, 2016 These are from Weaver, although I got an early batch of 1" #9s from Tandy. I found no difference between them, so I mixed them up in one box and haven't had a problem of incompatibility between brands... they're quite probably from the same manufacturer. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
