Rustic Juice Mod

[Sam Lim]

Hey,

My other half not around today. Decided to use her stove to do some cooking.

IDK, some may think it's repulsive, but I absolutely love the bronze, rustic look. At least for now. 

[Poncho65]

Pretty cool looking How did you get the finish like that though

[Sam Lim]

Courtesy of my wife's stove.. It's a rather quick barbecue of the juice. I dun think I would alter the temper of the steel. Hopefully not..

[ducttapetech]

Looks cool!

[Sam Lim]

Oh. And this was originally a XE6. I have removed the tools that I do not need. Using back the same rivet to put everything back together.. 

[BePrepared]

Nice.  I'm looking into ways to tone down the 'industrial' look of my SkeleJuice mod.  I might try this too!

How did you remove the rivets... and especially keep them in good enough condition to re-use!

[Sam Lim]

There is a looser side of the rivet, with the scales on, there's no way you can tell.. I originally dug mine out violently.. So I can see which side it is. Grind down that looser head, punch out that rivet. You will notice the other end of the rivet is thicker, probably result from factory peening. That have to be file down along the rivet to be reused. Once u are happy with the arrangement, measure required length, grind down leaving about 3mm for peening. BUT, mine is a XE6. I have a longer rivet to play with... S2 to S2, I am not sure if u will have enough allowance left to do it but from looking at my other s2, there should be just nice for u to reuse the rivet.

[Sam Lim]

Btw, I did order the pivot screws and they were here recently.  I just cant wait for them to arrive so I went ahead to try. No harm I guess. And they are indeed costly.. Bought 5 of them and they are about the same price of a pre-loved S2..

Come to think of it, I may remove on of the rivet again to put in a pocket clip.

[AimlessWanderer]

If you've heated up the steel sufficiently to discolour it, I think you may well have changed it's properties 

[BePrepared]

I suppose one end of the rivet is peened down, while the other head was part of the original rivet.  I would guess that the peened down end may be the tighter end if the rivet diameter expanded during peening.  So would that suggest tackling the other end to grind down?

[Sam Lim]

If you've heated up the steel sufficiently to discolour it, I think you may well have changed it's properties 

Honestly, i am not too sure.. It might really have impact the properties, but probably not enough to impact it as a light duty edc.. Idk.. Time will tell.

[Sam Lim]

I suppose one end of the rivet is peened down, while the other head was part of the original rivet.  I would guess that the peened down end may be the tighter end if the rivet diameter expanded during peening.  So would that suggest tackling the other end to grind down?

I would think so. But haven u already remove the rivet? I saw it in your other thread.

BTW, I tried to use the 1/8 pivot screw.. Doesn't fit... Anyone could chime in? Do I need to sand it down a little? All along thought it's just a drop in... Hmm..

[Vidar]

You can tell by the color patterns that it has been heated enough to make difference for the steel hardness and ductility. Rough general estimate: light straw color about 210C, brown 260C, dark blue 300C, light blue 320C, grey blue 370C. (The colors can also change gradually by prolonged heating at temperatures above 200C , but I guess it wasn't left there for hours).

So you might tell the temperature of the stove fairly accurate if the exposure time was short 

I'm no expert, but I think you only risk embrittlement over 230-250C to 300 or so, and even then takes some time to actually form. A quick barbecue should be fine.

Interesting look too

[BePrepared]

I mangled the rivets when I removed them.   

If the pivots are a fraction too thick you can file/grind/rub them down.  I had some 1/8" copper rivets I was testing and needed to file them down a fraction.  You can do this by hand (the Juice/ Wave diamond file is excellent) or put the pivot in a power drill and let that rotate it and file/rub down.