[TheForge] Follow up on a kludged shoulder rivet to fit a keyhole slot

[Paul Tomlinson]

Hi Bruce,

It sounds to me like you could use a trick I use all the time. I set my notcher to only cut 3 sides of the notch and then hook the resulting tab into a hole punched in the other piece. 

Insert a piece of steel under the tab and hit said tab once to make it a lock tab. 

A fast, jigable, and literally  no cost solution.

Paul. 


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-----Original Message-----
From: "Bruce ." <freemab222 at gmail.com>
Sender: "TheForge" <theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net>Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 21:45:10 
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Subject: [TheForge] Follow up on a kludged shoulder rivet to fit a keyhole
	slot

So curiosity got the better of me and I dug through my misc. hardware and
pulled out a short 1/8" steel pop rivet, and #6 flat and split washers that
fit the rivet.  I put the flat washer on first, then the split washer, then
riveted it into a 1/8" hole I drilled in an old coffee can.  Lo and behold,
it actually worked.

I didn't have a keyhole slot to try it in and didn't feel like going to the
trouble to make one, so I shoved the thing through a hole (slightly-larger
than the flat washer) in a sheet-metal fixture I had lying around.  The
coffee can hung onto the fixture about as well as could be expected.

I call that success.  I also call it cheap!

Bruce
NJ
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