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Posted: 9/30/2002 11:28:16 AM EDT
| I recently put a side sling swivel on my upper and wanted to remove the front sling swivel. How do I remove the front swivel rivot without marking up my upper. Thanks. Scott |
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I took off an old beat up sling swivel, just the other day, to replace it with a new one. Simple. Take a 3/32" drill bit and drill out the center of the rivet on the side with the hole in the head. You don't need to go very deep, maybe 1/8" or less, then take a 1/16" punch and give the rivet a good tap from this same side. Pops right out. A small ball-end cutter in a Dremel tool would work also. I put the new swivel on with a rolled pin. HTH . . . . Doug |
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Yeah, if you've got a big enough hammer and the "appropriate pin punch" (whatever that is), you probably could just "tap" the rivet out and be done with it. Of course you would also run the risk of breaking off one or both of the sling swivel "ears" if you failed to provide adequate support for them during the "tapping-out" process. Center drilling the peened end of the rivet took me all of about thirty seconds. Time well invested, IMHO. HTH . . . . . Doug |
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