Their website doesn't seem to be working for me at the moment. I haven't
actually seen the www.handsonrivet.com tools, but they sound like what you
get in a $2 pack of snap fasteners in the fabric section of Wal-Mart. If
they are like these, I would have a couple of caveats about using them (the
Wal-Mart tools work fine for installing snap fasteners):
1. The depth of the dished area in the concave disc is too deep to
accommodate the shallow height of the rivet head, and it is likely that the
edges of this part of the tool would put a circular impression in the plate
during bucking of the rivet.
2. The depth of the valve cover means the length of the rod-shaped tool
should be several inches long in order to work effectively.
As I said, I haven't seen the handson.com tools and they may work fine for
this job.
Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
Havelock, NC USA
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From: owner-healeys@autox.team.net
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Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2006 10:42 AM
To: linwood rose
Cc: list healey
Subject: Re: Rocker cover rivets
It is done cold. You can get tools to do this from www.hansonrivet.com
There are two tools involved. One is a small round concave shaped disc
that the head of the rivet sits in and you then take the other rod shaped
tool with the dish shaped tip that has a dimple in the center and hit it
with a hammer. The rod shaped tool rolls the hollow tip of the rivet out
tight against the inner side of the rocker cover permanently attaching the
plate to the cover. One look at the tools and you will understand.
Similar tools are used to install snaps to leather.
Mike MacLean
56 BN2
60 AN5
linwood rose
> When installing the rivets to secure the two plates on top of the
> rocker cover do you just place the top of the cover (head of rivet)
> against something hard and then hit the hollow rivet shaft with a
> ball peen hammer on the inside of the rocker cover? No reason to heat
> one of these little hollow rivets is there?
>
> Any tips?
>
> Lin
> 1960 BT7 in restoration
> 1959 Bugeye
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