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wildon:
So i was going to buy some replacement quick releases for some brake sets i got from porkchop in us.  Is there some kind of tool i can buy to install these?  They come with the rivit but what can i use to fix it?!  ???

http://www.porkchopbmx.com/Dia-Compe-replacement-quick-release-for-rear-brake-1008303.htm

Rodgy1970:
I remember doing something similar to this in metal work at school about 25 years ago so this may not be 100% right but it's the way I remember it.

You start by cutting the rivet to size, leaving a bit to shape into the round, you shape it initially with the ball of an engineering hammer, then used a tool called a rivet punch, (it is like a punch with a round hollow indent at the end to make the round on the rivet) you needed two rivet punches, you put one into the vice, put the round end of the rivet into it with the end of the rivet to be formed sticking up, then put the other rivet punch over the end to be formed and hammered it to form a round.
 

brettypeeps:
Heat the rivets in the oven for 20 minutes in the oven and they will form better @ 200C.  Fit them within an hour of cooking them  :daumenhoch:

wildon:
Cheers ... looks like a piece of piss .... found the right size rivet punch on ebay too  :daumenhoch:

58 delray:

--- Quote from: wildon on November 11, 2010, 08:01 PM ---Cheers ... looks like a piece of piss .... found the right size rivet punch on ebay too  :daumenhoch:

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do you have a link mate ?

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