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Don Coatney

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Ok someone show me some tools for properly installing tubular rivets? Or a decent way to fake it? I've got some to do and the only ones I found so far were about $50 per size.

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To set the rivets for the clutch lining or brake lining there are specila rivet tool to crimp down the brass rivet.  ALso rivets come in different sizes anf lengths and also different size heads as per what you are specifically trying to put together.

 

If you are doing a brake relining I can tell you the speific size rivets that you will need and also the quantity that you will need.

Contact me with what you are trying to do and I will look up the rivet size for you.

 

I have a rivet setting tool that uses a screw down to set the rivet from the back. I prefer this style instead of the old way of forcing the rivet closed with the hitting it via a punch and hammer. Possibility to crack the lining and with the srew down you can feel when the rivet has bottomed out.

 

Also there is a tool to hold the brake lining on the shoe to keep it positioned on the metal shoe so that you can get the lining to fit perfectly flat onthe curvature of the shoe.  I have both of these tools.

I will try to post pictures of the tools  but send me you home email.

 

Rich HArtung

Desoto1939@aol

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Here are some pictures of the newer style brake rivet tool that peens over the back of the rivet  when installing new or replacement brake linings on a brake shoe that can take a riveted lining.

 

I like this style better because you can slowly tighten down on the back of the rivet to  peen down the back instead using the style that  uses a hammer blow to peen over the rivet.

 

On the brake shoe that I have in the vise there is a  tool made by the Starr company. This tool is used to hold the brake lining in position and to keep it flat against the metal shoe.  You then insert the specific sized rivet for your brake shoe and please note that there are different size rivets for all type of brake shoes.  so it is not just generic rivet. they must be the correct size.

 

I have relined several pairs of brake shoes and it it a very easy job to do.

 

The first two pictures are of the rivet tool and the remaining pictures are of the Starr Brake lining tool.  If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.

 

Rich Hartung

Desoto1939@aol.com

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I've set up punches in a vise to use as a backer against the head of the rivet. The problem is clinching them down since they roll out and down to properly seat. It takes a special punch to do that. You could start them out with a center punch but getting them to roll over is the hard part.

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JerseyHarold, on 15 Nov 2014 - 4:30 PM, said:

Don,

What brand of skates did you get?

Pittsburg, Harbor Freight, 1500 pound rating, $54 per pair with a 20% coupon brought it down to $34 per pair. 

 

http://www.harborfreight.com/2-piece-1500-lb-capacity-vehicle-dollies-67338.html

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I don't have the Scout in a good place to take photos. There were taken when I was moving the whole jumkyard around last summer.

 

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My dad bought this recap as a spare in Phoenix in 1972. It has never moved from the tire carrier since & still holds air. It's been in the sun every day for 42 years. I'll bet I could pop it pretty easily. ;-)

 

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I'm afraid it's a bastard.

 

The chassis is a '63 with a larger '67 4 cyl.  The body is swapped from a '67 V-8, purchased in Phoenix in 1972, to replace the, by then rusty, '63 body.

We had to swap the radiator bulkheads to make it work, and I drilled all the spot welds & replaced them with pop rivets on both cars.

This was taken just before the swap. The Scout on the left was Mom's & the right one was Dad's. My sister sits on my '71 Yamaha 180 twin.

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Tattered manual was still in the glove box.

 

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Dad bought this later Scout Turbo engine about 1974, but we never did install it.

 

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Jerry my fumble fingers would love that tool!

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A hundred times I've put a screw on a stick with masking tape, or just  taped a screw right to the screwdriver because I didn't have a proper manipulator.

 

Very handy indeed.

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On 12/1/2014 at 8:33 PM, Ulu said:

A hundred times I've put a screw on a stick with masking tape, or just  taped a screw right to the screwdriver because I didn't have a proper manipulator.

 

Very handy indeed.

 Pictures, please :D

 

 

TOOLBOX ARSENAL: 

These soldering pliers were dusted off to work on a aircraft power supply unit...very effective for soldering crimped lugs on 2/0 gauge wire:  solder flowed within a second, and still flowed 10 seconds after the pliers were removed :cool:

 

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