Richie's Mk1 Restoration

[RichardT10829]

awesome ! i like being able to put my hands onto my tool.....s without scratting about (so many inuendo's its scary)

the mag drill is excelent and a good buy for the would be carrier rebuilder.. it can be cumbersome to hold in situ but what I do is dial the drill bit down so its flush with the work surface then line the drill bit up with the spot and switch on the magnet.. you can do similar with a centre pin facility. the drill comes with standard chuck as pictured and rotabroach style (with oiler) can cut up to 25mm (dia) holes and it goes through the 10mm steel like butter and is ideal for doing the countersinking (as you can centre the drill on the hole then change out the bits) struggles to stick on the thinner steel but all the armour is a sinch to it.

[RichardT10829]

ok this is for Lynn... I picked up the rivet gun tonight from Bill.... it is a 4x goose neck gun which should be up to the task... i have set rivets with a smaller gun but struggled... this thing although small weighs a fair bit...




the snaps are readily available... i have worked out that a 5/8 brazier / truss / liverpool head snap is the way to go... based on the theory that the rivet head when formed is just shy of 16mm diameter.

[Lynn Eades]

Here is what I have been using. My gun has a 1 1/16" dia. piston, with a 4 inch stroke. We have made up the various tools to get into the akward places in the carrier.

[RichardT10829]

Hahahaha we have started something here...with sharpie's slightly bigger than mine... where did you get the snaps. did your gun struggle or did it fire them in with ease ?

cheers

Richie

[Lynn Eades]

Without the benefit of trying others, I would guess it to be about the right size. I/ we have made up all the tooling (snaps) It will easily smear the rivetlike warm butter if not held square on. We made the long stuff so we could get into the corners without changing the angle too much. We certaintly need some mass on the back side of the plate. Experimentation is required as there are lots of variables.
We started with 12mm of rivet sticking out past the plate, and have upped it to 15mm(this makes it harder for the guy on the gun) this is for countersunk holes (like at the bottom of the hull side plate, to the floor.

My holes are two drill sizes bigger than 3/8". we grind a small bevel on each rivet.

I was hoping the two pens were similar. It is my gun that is bigger. (no other comments!)

[RichardT10829]

so did you just use a lathe to bore out the correct shape in the snap ?

[Ben]

When I spoke to the chap who did Shuans riveting, he said you can turn any shape you need but they need to be hardened otherwise the constant heat and hammering deforms them.

Ben