Posted: 10/21/2012 6:04:25 PM EDT
| Anyone here ever thought about, or actually used spent .22 casings as rivets before? Just thought I'd throw this one out here and see if anyone else has done it. |
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Not rivets, but there's a Stevens 44 rifle around this area with pins that are sleeved with slit cases. The holes in the innards were oversized by some yahoo with a dangerous tool. (It ain't my gun, and I didn't screw up the parts, it came here that way.)
A case would work okay as a light duty or decorative rivet. I have a set I made in the mid 80's out of a bolt for setting brake rivets on my old airplane. |
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Yes, my father did it once on a knife sheath.
They are not great rivets, the brass is not quite ductile enough. But with the right tooling they did work. And it looked badass as he was able to do it using a hollow-ground punch without damging the "Super-X" headstamp." |
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Yes, my father did it once on a knife sheath. They are not great rivets, the brass is not quite ductile enough. But with the right tooling they did work. And it looked badass as he was able to do it using a hollow-ground punch without damging the "Super-X" headstamp." You could anneal them first, they would be much easier to work with that way. |
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Yes, my father did it once on a knife sheath. They are not great rivets, the brass is not quite ductile enough. But with the right tooling they did work. And it looked badass as he was able to do it using a hollow-ground punch without damging the "Super-X" headstamp." You could anneal them first, they would be much easier to work with that way. I was just about to ask this, my question would be, is it enough? |