Wanted: Bren carrier rivets

[Francis Lafrance]

Where to find the rivet for bren carrier armour??

[RichardT10829]

SAPPHIRE PRODUCTS Birmingham United Kingdom.

If you drop me an email, I will give you some details that will make ordering them easier. There are others who need rivets for carrier projects in Canada. If they have not yet already got them, they might shout up and you can split the postage.

I am happy if you order the rivets from the above firm to use my address as a holding station until you sort overseas postage, and can help package them up for the journey.

Finally (insert shameless plug)

I produce the tools required to form the rivets if you get stuck.


Cheers

Richie

[Lynn Eades]

Or, there is "Big flats rivet company" on the net, based in New York, and they ship to Canada.

[rob love]

If you know someone in Calgary there is a surplus store there that sells a very suitable rivet for $5 for each box of 20 or 25. I have done a few carriers using their rivets.

[Robin Craig]

If you can wait a bit there is a sea container coming from the UK later this year.

A box of rivets could easily go inside.

That would get you as far as Toronto

Robin

[Wayne Hingley]

Originally Posted by rob love

If you know someone in Calgary there is a surplus store there that sells a very suitable rivet for $5 for each box of 20 or 25. I have done a few carriers using their rivets.

I am in the Calgary area and would be happy to help out with getting rivets from the source Rob mentions.

[jeff davis]

A company called fastenal here in bc sells them reasonably cheep after all they are rivits

[Jim Burrill]

I need enough rivets for one side armour installation. Plus some extras to practice with.

Happy to buy a box o 50 or 100 if that what it takes.

Happy to work with anyone to get these.

Jim
Lansdale PA area.

[Lynn Eades]

Jim,my advice is buy them a bit too long, Do a test run, and cut them to suit. The clearance in the hole can use up material. Most U.C. rivets are 3/8", but the U.Cs use 5/16" rivets to join the track guards to the angle iron (the angle iron that meets the upper hull side plates.

Try that web site I mentioned. It is rivets that they do. Freight from there to here is expensive, but for you guys it's cheap! (relatively speaking)
Rivets tend to add up, weight wise.

Colin Jones gave me about 30+ kilos of 3/8" rivets, when Chris and I stayed at their home a couple of years ago. I carted them from Adelaide to Kalgoorlie on the train, and again when we came home, down to Perth on the train, and then on the plane to New Zealand. They had to be spread around in the luggage. The bag limit on Air N.Z. is 24 kilos. 30 kilos would pull the handles off of a lot of bags!
Thank you again Colin.

[jeff davis]

Google fastenall they are a huge distributor based in minisota you need 5/16 ri it's 1 inch long
Regards
Jeff

[jeff davis]

Fastenal
275 Avenue Saint-Sacrement #120
Quebec City
Closed now

[colin jones]

I still have quite a few rivets left but I think the postage would be quite expensive. I sent some M3 grousers to Canada and that was $800 so I would think it would be around $100 to send a few KGs but I'm happy to help if needed.
Colin.

[RichardT10829]

That's not quite correct, you actually need 3/8 rivets for the armour and 5/16 for the air intake boxes, radio battery box and some rivets in the folding armour on a Mk1

[maple_leaf_eh]

Didn't someone post a lesson in how to rivet a carrier? I recall the tricks was heat the blank rivet to a certain colour, then two men with the riveting tool and the backing tool did a sort of dance with tongs and hammers. Whoever wrote the story made it seem "effortless" but very tiring. The fellow said he tried using a C-clamp tool, but I forget whether it worked or not.