[TheForge] stainless steel rivets

Tue Apr 8 21:51:00 2003

Catherine Jo:  If the stainless rivets are sold in the annealed state
(likely) they will be easy to hammer.  Test by scratching wih a file, which
will reveal hardness.  If annealed, they will scratch easily.

                                    Grant Marcoux
----- Original Message -----
From: "Catherine Jo Morgan" <[email protected]>
To: "Blacksmithing mailing list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 9:27 AM
Subject: [TheForge] stainless steel rivets

> I've only used the annealed mild steel rivets - very easy to head up
> with a ball pein hammer or a rivet set. Has anyone here used the
> stainless rivets? I think of stainless as being about three times
> tougher to hammer than mild steel, so I'm wondering how difficult it
> will be to head them up.
>
> Catherine Jo Morgan
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