CL Score!!!

[MottsRods]

I scored this off of CL the other day.... it works, and i also got several different anvils for it. I call Chicago Rivet & Machine and I can still get parts for it. It was built in 1942, back when they really knew how to make tools and machine's..... I'm gonna use it to make some bomber seats, and some dash panels and such....

 

[crashbumper]

You lucky ^%@$^$*

How much?

Damn it; I've been wanting something like that to play with.

Gonna restore it?

 

[MottsRods]

It really doesn't need much in the way of restoration. It works well, and the paint on it is original. I do need to work on the lower anvil some. The guy said if it wasn't sold by a certain day, he would scrap it. so I offered him scrap price for it...... $40.....

 

[Vernmotor]

You dog... I hate you LOL

 

[LoneGunman]

Thief !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[MottsRods]

I know I stole it..... I couldn't believe he took my offer, but rather than him having to take it to the scrap yard....i guess he saved the gas, and I got a kick *** piece of golld ol american machinery. It weighs around 125 lbs. After going through all the die's and anvils, I have 7 matching sets, and 3 oddballs. The tooling alone is about $75 for each piece, upper and lower.

 

[bimmer1980]

that is awesome!!! I would like to find one as well......

formed rivets like that are great!

 

[OccupantRJ]

Good going! I buy a lot of my equipment like this at industrial salvage yards and metal scrap yards. It's usually pretty inexpensive these days. I bought a punch press, 1,000 lbs weight,for $200, took it home, painted and tested it, and sold it through the local Carolina Bargain Trader magazine to a greenhouse manufacturing co. for $1500, total time was about a days labor and paint. This is how I have built up my shop over the years, keep some for myself, sell others to pay my tool habit.

RJ

 

[ProGun3400]

Excuse my ignorance but how does it work?

 

[sickytwisted]

so I offered him scrap price for it...... $40.....

WHat scrap yard are you going to?

 

[MottsRods]

Excuse my ignorance but how does it work?

It works by putting a compression rivet between the upper die and lower anvil and stomping on the pedal. It then compresses the rivet to the point of pinching and holding two pieces of metal together. There is also the pheumatic 4x types that you need a buck on the other side, and this compressing the rivet.

WHat scrap yard are you going to?

Local recycler here pays more for cast iron than steel. this thing weighs well over 100 lbs.

 

[ProGun3400]

Ah, I see. So it would work like a foot operated arbor press.

 

[MottsRods]

Yep..... I had a few rivets for it and have been playing with it. I have some aluminum cut out and bent so when the new aluminum rivets get here, gonna make them into some 'bomber style' seats.

 

[ProGun3400]

It works by putting a compression rivet between the upper die and lower anvil and stomping on the pedal. It then compresses the rivet to the point of pinching and holding two pieces of metal together. There is also the pheumatic 4x types that you need a buck on the other side, and this compressing the rivet.

I've seen (and heard) that done before. The trailer repair shop at a yard I used to work at would use them for patch panels. One guy outside would use an air hammer on the head of the rivet, another guy inside the trailer with a bucking bar. That was a noisy place when they were bucking rivets.

 

[bimmer1980]

most of the aluminum airplanes are built using "bucked" rivets.......

This technique has been around for awhile..... I read on a airplane builder's site that had done some ultimate load testing.... it was amazing at how much force it took to separate the two pieces.