[TheForge] Brass to steel rivets

[wmullett at bright.net]

Thanks, I kind of thought it would not matter.  Steel might eat into the brass a little while setting the head.

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>Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:24:27 EDT
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>Subject: Re: [TheForge] Brass to steel rivets  
>To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
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>In a message dated 8/24/2010 2:54:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
>wmullett at bright.net writes:
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>When  connecting a brass ladle to a steel handle, what rivets are best to  
>use
>When studying the Sorber collection which contained dozens of brass,  steel 
>and copper ladle and strainer bowls, all connected to steel handles,  they 
>used copper, brass and iron rivets. All lasted a few hundred years.  
>Personally, I always use 1/8" brass roundheads with a rivet set that maintained  
>the head.
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