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Skyway Rivets

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bigsman:
I've been trying to suss this out as well for one of my graphites but with no joy.  One of the guys on here has successfully had it done but when I contacted him he seemed to think it was no big deal and any local machinist would do it.  I phoned about 10 and none would even entertain the idea...so I'm back stuck at square one.  As I understand it you need an orbital riveter or something like that to do it 'right' but I think there must be other ways to just get the job done.

If you get any joy I wouldn't mind hearing about who did it...cheers

Steve

Bob_Acid:
I think we've got an orbital riveter at work, i'll have a chat with the engineers tonight.

SteveG:
If you coild get the rivit made up then thats half the battle. Forming domed headed rivits is reasonably easy, you can do it by hand with a small ball pein hammer, better to do it with a proper former though.
Replicating the original ones looks difficult though as you would need exactly the right length rivit.
I wonder if once you formed a reasonable shaped head you could file the top off carefully to flatten it ?

soll36:
ive done a few wheels now...turned the rivets myself and formed one end then peened the other ends over with a hammer..there not goin anywhere..heres a couple of pics.                                          

Bob_Acid:
Good job Soll

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