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fischflo:
yeah ...Steve P says 7500 bucks in the States :D
courtesy Steve P

if that is the original rivet .....AND if/ since the machine is a 'spinning' riveter .....then maybe the roundish/ convex side is in fact the 'pressed' side......... meaning the side to drill into....?

fischflo:
Biagio used to sell original rivets .............

but what's the use, or the use of ones you remade after an original sample one .........if you don't have the waza-machine?

but maybe one could then at least get them riveted in a 'simple' stright-down fashion .......? If this is possible, then the rivets would have two flat sides (...right?), but who cares?

(Which points to the question: would it really have to be a tapered rivet, or would the thing be wobbly with a simpler, straight rivet. But i guess it would be wobbly, since the shank is conical, too)

fischflo:
ha:
drill the shank so you can replace the tapered with a straight rivet          :chin:

84freestyler:
Yes fischflo, your right "wot the point without a waza machine"

I,Ve been thinking about this and maybe with some trial and error the same could be achieved with a good quality drill on the "hammer" setting with a tempered piece of steel in the chuck with an impression to replicate the original stainless rivet.. You,d be able to rotate the drill manually off axis and maybe with some practice you cud get a similar finish?

Another tool which cud be used wud be an air hammer/chisel dialed up or down on psi until its gonna peen the rivet head down?

Just a thought for now until I source some rivets,  and then practice on some scrap alloy before moving onto the tuffs

fischflo:
think i'd concentrate first on either
getting the conic/tpared rivets done and search for a a machine shop that can hammer the thin in

or

finding out if the drilling of the shank would work and finding corresponding straight rivets

before you think about hammering the heads in urself ......although i bet u'd be able to make a buck, if you figure out that, too :D :smiley6600:

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