[Hallicrafters] a non sx-88 question: where to get rivets/tools

[Jim Wilhite]

Bill are you sure you want to do that?  If you look at unused rivets 
one end has a head and the other is just a straight shank.  To set those 
things, you need a bucking bar and a device for pounding on the rivet 
head.  Like a punch with a cupped end to fit the head of the rivet in 
question.

You place the bucking bar against the rivet shank underneath and the 
punch on the head.  Holding both you strike the punch with the hammer to 
flatten the shank.  Not an exercise I would want to do to a radio.  I 
much prefer #4 screws, washers and nuts.  Less damage.

But if you want to do it, most of those rivets were made of phosphor 
bronze.  I haven't see any like them in a very long time, but I haven't 
looked either.  Try McMaster-Carr or Granger.  Boy are you going to have 
fun.

Jim/W5JO



----- Original Message ----- 
>
> Need to drill out some rivets on some gear but would like to use the 
> same kind of rivet when I put the gear back together.
> Hence POP rivets will not do the job.  What kind of rivets do I need, 
> what tools and where might I get them at a reasonable price ?
> (both solid and tubular rivets).
>
> bill