Stew Denton
02-25-2016, 10:09 PM
Hi All,
I am restoring another Stanley plane, in this case an old Bed Rock. In the process I took apart the frog, removed the horizontal adjuster and removed the yoke also. Had to drill both of them out, they were REALLY in there.
At any rate, I need to find some material to make replacement rivets out of. I went to a local supply house, and they didn't have rivet material of the right size.
I thought about soft iron wire, and think it would work because it will probably be soft enough to rivet easily. I used to have some of about the right size, but have no idea where it is.
The yoke size is about 1/8 inch, and the one for the horizontal adjuster is about 5/32nds, if I recall, so will need two sizes, or will have to do a lot of careful work with a file if I had some stuff that was a bit oversized. I did measure the diameters with a dial caliper, and also checked the approximate sizing with some twist drill bits. The supply place did have very high quality steel roll pins in 1/8th inch, and they said they would work. I'm not real keen on using a roll pin, even if it would work well, as it isn't close to being a replacement in kind, but bought a few anyway.
I thought about nails, but nails are pretty tough and they don't rivet that easily, because they have to be driven into wood. The guy at the supply place suggested the shank from an aluminum pop rivet, which would be pretty close size wise for the bigger size, but again not a RIK, and I don't know how well the aluminum would hold up.
Any ideas?
Stew
I am restoring another Stanley plane, in this case an old Bed Rock. In the process I took apart the frog, removed the horizontal adjuster and removed the yoke also. Had to drill both of them out, they were REALLY in there.
At any rate, I need to find some material to make replacement rivets out of. I went to a local supply house, and they didn't have rivet material of the right size.
I thought about soft iron wire, and think it would work because it will probably be soft enough to rivet easily. I used to have some of about the right size, but have no idea where it is.
The yoke size is about 1/8 inch, and the one for the horizontal adjuster is about 5/32nds, if I recall, so will need two sizes, or will have to do a lot of careful work with a file if I had some stuff that was a bit oversized. I did measure the diameters with a dial caliper, and also checked the approximate sizing with some twist drill bits. The supply place did have very high quality steel roll pins in 1/8th inch, and they said they would work. I'm not real keen on using a roll pin, even if it would work well, as it isn't close to being a replacement in kind, but bought a few anyway.
I thought about nails, but nails are pretty tough and they don't rivet that easily, because they have to be driven into wood. The guy at the supply place suggested the shank from an aluminum pop rivet, which would be pretty close size wise for the bigger size, but again not a RIK, and I don't know how well the aluminum would hold up.
Any ideas?
Stew