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Posted: 12/19/2005 11:03:30 AM EDT
you will need
2 feet of 2X1 channel iron (usally about $2 a foot) 4 inchs 3/8x1 1/4 bar stock (under $1) 19/64 118deg bit 4 inch sidegrinder start by setting a tg in your channel 4-5 from end and marking it with a pen (i sandblasted so you could see)  next center puch your marks  now drill with 19/64 bit just till the hole stops getting bigger  take your 4 inch piece of 1 1/4x3/8 bar and grind down both sides (to remove rounded edges) to 1.16 and bevel the top edge in to clear your lower rails   AND YOUR DONE a rivet jig for under 5 bucks heres pics of it being used and the results   |
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Posted: 12/19/2005 11:37:52 AM EDT
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Where can you find the channel iron?
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Posted: 12/19/2005 11:38:01 AM EDT
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thanks.
hope this gets put in the BIY sticky thread, if not, it's saved to my HD. Caspian |
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Posted: 12/19/2005 11:40:59 AM EDT
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if you have any metal yards in your area, you'll probably be able to find it in the "scrap" section. The price of scrap here is $0.39/lb. It gets expensive quick depending how much you need. However the scrap sections are generally pretty small.
if it wouldn't cost an arm and a leg to ship, i'd try to get ya some from my local yard. However, by the time you figure in shipping on even a 5 inch piece it will get cost prohibitive.
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Posted: 12/19/2005 11:52:28 AM EDT
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yea you can get it about anywhere i got some from a scrap dumpster
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Posted: 12/19/2005 5:11:58 PM EDT
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If you are making your own jig it will help a lot
if you transfer the hole pattern from the receiver rather than from the trigger guard itself. I recently made a jig for my polish kit using the triggerguard but when I went to assemble , the rivets didn't fit in the jig because the TG was sprung smaller than it needed to be to fit the receiver. I was able to use the jig singly but it would have been nice to do them all at once. |
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Posted: 12/19/2005 5:21:47 PM EDT
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well if you have a 1 piece jig a flat would work better but with 2
you need to use the trigger guard to tell you how far apart the 2 pieces need to be the guard needs to be in good shape tho |
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Posted: 12/19/2005 6:25:52 PM EDT
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Posted: 12/19/2005 6:46:04 PM EDT
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Thanks for the tip, I will be on my way to the scrapyard in the morning....gotta finish tooling up for the pistol build
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Posted: 12/19/2005 7:12:42 PM EDT
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how did you rivet the last rivet that is next to the pistol grip
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Posted: 12/19/2005 7:23:41 PM EDT
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just turn your rec sideways and use any 1 of the 4 divets
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Posted: 12/19/2005 7:25:50 PM EDT
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dam your smart
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Posted: 12/20/2005 7:31:53 AM EDT
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For even less, you could make the dimples in some flat steel bar, place them on top of your vise , opened enough to fit the trigger guard, and hammer the rivets flat inside the receiver with a hammer and a bucking bar.
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Posted: 12/20/2005 7:57:59 AM EDT
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Yep . . . I did 4 receivers with this exact solution. Disconnector |
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Posted: 12/20/2005 10:27:22 AM EDT
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Still the homebuild king... very cool.
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Posted: 12/20/2005 1:21:01 PM EDT
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Or dimple the tops of the jaws of your vise. |
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Posted: 12/20/2005 2:04:41 PM EDT
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I love the elegant simplicity of socandyman's jig, but I used Fishpaw's method exactly. I have a Plinker jig on the way that I will use for my next two builds.
rob |
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Posted: 12/21/2005 3:35:10 AM EDT
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This REALLY needs to be a sticky. C'mon mods, please post it permanantly
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Posted: 12/22/2005 4:09:05 AM EDT
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socandyman you are a genius!
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Posted: 12/22/2005 2:02:57 PM EDT
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nice,..very nice,..
think you could wield the two haves together at the ends for more strength? |
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Posted: 12/22/2005 3:23:00 PM EDT
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shure you could altho all the pressure is going strait down so it isnt really needed
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Posted: 12/22/2005 3:26:27 PM EDT
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you dont know my luck do you?........anyways,...send me a email if you can on how mych it would cost for you to put one together for me. have a merry x-mas |
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Posted: 12/22/2005 8:36:51 PM EDT
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you rock dude
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Posted: 12/27/2005 8:00:48 AM EDT
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