[TheForge] Need help finding a part -- or it's name at least

[Jay Hayes]

Bruce, shoulder rivets are a specialty fastener, but you can find dozens 
of suppliers online via google. You may be able to even get some of them 
to send you samples to try.  Jay

On 5/26/2014 12:17 PM, Bruce . wrote:
> Thanks, Jay.  A 10-24 shoulder screw with a 1/8" shoulder could work. (I
> couldn't find  shoulder rivets.)
>
> The damned things aren't cheap, though -- nearly $2 each in qtty 5!
>
> Still the idea is a good one.  Possibly I could use a short piece of
> thin-wall tube as a "shoulder" on a round-headed screw.  Might could work.
> Maybe I could even use a pop-rivet through such a short piece of tubing --
> installing it backwards, so to speak, so the head of the pop rivet forms
> the locking member that engages the keyhole.  That might be real easy.
>
> Thanks, all.
>
>
> Bruce
> NJ
>
>
> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Jay Hayes <xmas4lites at earthlink.net>wrote:
>
>> Bruce, what you are looking for is a shoulder rivet, a shoulder screw, or
>> shoulder bolt. In some applications they are called Frankenstein Bolts.
>> Another approach uses a machined thimble or an eyelet to provide the proper
>> clearance to engage in the keyhole, held in place with a standard screw or
>> rivet.
>>
>> Jay
>>
>>
>> On 5/26/2014 12:13 AM, Bruce . wrote:
>>
>>> I'm working on plans for lightweight, portable forges, and I have a good
>>> approach to a problem that uses a very common idea -- but I can't find the
>>> hardware I need to implement it, or even the NAME of the hardware, to
>>> facilitate finding it.
>>>
>>> You've all seen keyhole slots:
>>> http://www.woodfit.com/images/BP500%20Keyhole%20plate%20C.jpg
>>> http://www.pinbax.com/items/A4413.jpg
>>> http://ledmuseum.candlepower.us/third/sock5.jpg
>>> http://www.govart.com/images/hwr_keyhole_hdLG.jpg
>>> and so forth.
>>>
>>> Well, I have an application in which I want to lock one sheet metal device
>>> to another.  I can put a keyhole slot in the one -- but I need the
>>> appropriate stud for the other.
>>>
>>> Anyone have a clue where to look for such a thing?
>>>
>>> Right now have no better idea than to use a nail head, the nail retained
>>> in
>>> some manner in the opposing part.  I'd like to come up with something
>>> better than that!
>>>
>>>
>>> Bruce
>>> NJ
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