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Best method(s) for starting a rivet from a straight rod?

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Best method(s) for starting a rivet from a straight rod?
on: April 13, 2015, 08:58:41 PM
Assuming one starts to create the first end of a rivet from a straight rod.  What are the best methods to hold it?  Putting it in a vice may deform the rod.  I would be working with the 2.2mm rod here.  I've been trying to come up with other methods to hold it, including a close fit hole drilled in a piece of hard steel.  But the rod would probably need to be pushed out from the other side once finished?
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Re: Best method(s) for starting a rivet from a straight rod?
Reply #1 on: April 13, 2015, 09:11:11 PM
Make some clamp plates/blocks:
http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,51661.msg875730.html#msg875730
You probably don't even need to get that fancy - a couple of shallow grooves in two pieces of aluminium or brass would do for a few rivets.
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Re: Best method(s) for starting a rivet from a straight rod?
Reply #2 on: April 13, 2015, 09:59:10 PM
I have used  the soft jaws in my vice which works ‘OK’

Everything’s adjustable

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Re: Best method(s) for starting a rivet from a straight rod?
Reply #3 on: April 13, 2015, 11:10:22 PM
Just cut the rod ends to plus 1mm each end, and start hammering, works fine for me.

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Re: Best method(s) for starting a rivet from a straight rod?
Reply #4 on: April 14, 2015, 03:56:01 AM
Quote from: neillcurrie on April 13, 2015, 11:10:22 PM
Just cut the rod ends to plus 1mm each end, and start hammering, works fine for me.
+1  this for me as well
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Re: Best method(s) for starting a rivet from a straight rod?
Reply #5 on: April 14, 2015, 04:09:54 AM
I form the head by holding the rod in the chuck of a cordless drill and peening it with the drill running.

This makes a nice symmetrical head.
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Re: Best method(s) for starting a rivet from a straight rod?
Reply #6 on: April 23, 2015, 03:03:41 PM
Nice tip Peter! :tu:
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Re: Best method(s) for starting a rivet from a straight rod?
Reply #7 on: April 23, 2015, 03:23:24 PM
Quote from: PTRSAK on April 14, 2015, 04:09:54 AM
I form the head by holding the rod in the chuck of a cordless drill and peening it with the drill running.

This makes a nice symmetrical head.

I've got a drill press, which I can remove the chuck invert it an set it on a table.  I'll give that a try.
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