Motor Info Plate Attachment

[BrianHayes]

I've been through the 18 pages relating to "rivet" without success. What are people using to re-attach motor info plates?



I have been to a few of the mentioned supplier websites (Hansen, Jay-Cee), but am not sure what I'm looking for (seems more like an eyelet than a rivet). Pop rivets won't work as the is no space between the motor band and core.

Very much open to suggestions...

 

[msharley]

Might they have been the "cad weld" type rivet?

 

[dutchgray]

Looks like a hollow or tubular rivet, but you'd need access to both sides to deform them.

 

[Bob-B]

Some machine manufactures used drive screws to attach such plates.

McMaster-Carr has them.

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[alfadan]

There's a special rivet that looks like a brad with a twisted shank called nameplate rivets. Used on old machines.

 

[larry_g]

X2 on drive screws.

 

[BrianHayes]

I'm familiar with drive screws to attach plates to castings,



But I can't see them as an effective way to attach a nameplate to a 22-gauge stator band:



I have access to both sides of the band, I'm just not sure of the type of connector to use.

 

[alfadan]

Are they just hollow body rivets?

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The price for the tool looks ridiculous, though something could be fabbed up I'm sure.

 

[Ricky Joe]

Careful what you are doing. If it is a vehicle that is going to be shown, judged, or sold, you have to find the exact same rivets. To a collector wanting a vintage car, that is important. It is also hard to find.

 

[Firebrick43]

Careful what you are doing. If it is a vehicle that is going to be shown, judged, or sold, you have to find the exact same rivets. To a collector wanting a vintage car, that is important. It is also hard to find.

Its not a car, its a 115v AC motor.

 

[Firebrick43]

I'm familiar with drive screws to attach plates to castings,



But I can't see them as an effective way to attach a nameplate to a 22-gauge stator band:



I have access to both sides of the band, I'm just not sure of the type of connector to use.

If the drive rivets linked by alfadan are sized correctly to the hole they hold nameplates on motors just fine. I have used them on dozens and dozens of starter motors to attach repro delco nameplates and they hold in the thin band. I have used them on old AC motors as well, as I prefer to pop them out with a chisel and repaint the reattach the nameplate.

 

[BrianHayes]

I appreciate everyone's advice. I have ordered some drive screws. Major plus: no expensive tools needed for installation.

 

[GreyOwl]

If the plate is attached to just the thin band which is what it looks like in the first picture, it looks to be a common brass eyelet like in a pair of shoes.

 

[marinusdees]

I appreciate everyone's advice. I have ordered some drive screws. Major plus: no expensive tools needed for installation.

My buddy who owns an electric motor repair shop (yes, he's a dinosaur) calls them escutcheon pins. He stocks them in sevaral sizes. I have "borrowed" them from him. Installs them with a hammer.

 

[RTM]

My buddy who owns an electric motor repair shop (yes, he's a dinosaur) calls them escutcheon pins.

When I grew up, escutcheon pins were brass nails or brads with big round heads, used to secure a brass shield around a keyhole, as commonly seen on a vintage tool chest or trunk,