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Midway Coindoor Logo Rivets
csa3d:
Today I checked at the local Lowes and Home Depot for Brass Flathead Rivets. The only rivets I was able to find are steel pop rivets. While these would likely work, they are not asthetically pleasing to my desire for authentic feel. I have not found an Ace Hardware yet, so that's last on my list of local places to check. I was honestly hoping this whole issue would cost less then 5$. Seems not.
Level42: I still have the old plate. The way I removed my plate was to squat down, with the door upside down balenced between my calves (I make a great sawhorse too!). I took a small paneling/finish nail, and placed it on the back side of the rivet in the middle. Then I wacked the nail as hard as I could to knock the pin out forward through the front of the door. Most of them free'd themselves with one wack, others took two. There was minimal bending to the original plate, and no no damage done to the door either. I also remember taking some needle nose plyers and trying to sqeeze the backside of each rivet to make them break off, but I don't remember that working well. In the end, the finishing nail in the backside did the job.
I'll gather these measurements and send them off to that rivet supplier. He told me via email there's a part you buy which is $18, which you use with a hammer to unfold the back side of the rivet to get it to expand. These parts are specific to the rivet's diameter.. so yeah, I'll be waiting to get the rivet sample before placing that order. I'm fairly certain a 1/4 rivet is what we want. More info soon.
-csa
Level42:
Uhmmm.....take care when being your own sawhorse..... sounds risky ! No telling where that saw might end....
Thanks, good idea.....I thought about drilling the inside of the rivets, but there's not enough room for the drill.
I'll give it a try (although I'm not sure about being a sawhorse like that ;) !
Hadn't thought about the tool yet ! Makes sense. I've seen those "general" tools for rivets here, but I guess they wont work for us....
I hope to "rescue" the original rivets and see what I can do with them.
Encryptor:
I have the ones I drilled out of mine. The diameter of the ones I have is 3/32". The plate is 1/32" thick and the coin door itself is 1/16" thick. The length of the rivet is harder to tell because the top is drilled off but I'd have to say it is about 3/16".
I'd be interested in getting a dozen or maybe 2 dozen depending on what the cost is going to be. I'm doing 2 doors myself.
Encryptor
csa3d:
Thanks all for the replies! I think after looking at all the figures, we need the standard 3/32" rivet from http://www.rivetsinstock.com/rivet02.htm
Unless there are any objections, I'm going to send in a request for samples using the following diagram:
Let me know, I'll send this off tomorrow if I hear nothing back.
-csa
zorg:
once you have the samples of the specifiec rivets, if they match the origunal ones, and if you want to share teh rivets, count me for at least 36 :D
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