Hi,
when silver soldering more complicated assemblies like real locomotive
boilers the parts need to be temporarily held together. The most common
fasteners recommended by the experts are copper/bronze screws or rivets.
Though googling quite extensively I have not found yet a source for small
Pete, Royce Group,
I have ordered the tiny rivets from the 'Scale 32' side of Gallery of Transportation,
I have some of their castings, too... Didn't need them for anything, I just 'collect'
good castings and materials for projects I have yet to think of...
It is beautiful stuff! Those tiny
Peter:
I've ordered 1:32 parts from these guys, good stuff.
Jim
Thanks Jim Jon, I need some nuts and bolts as well so I will put a order
together.
PeteH
This is a little late but may be useful for others, I just ran across this
site:
http://www.galtran.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGYStore_Code=galtranCategory_Code=rivets
Has anyone ordered from here before?
Kindest Regards,
PeteH
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From: Royce [EMAIL PROTECTED
Hi Pete. Thanks for the lead. The rivets listed are by far the
smallest I have seen. they may come in handy. thanks.
royce in SB
PeteH wrote:
This is a little late but may be useful for others, I just ran across this
site:
http://www.galtran.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGYStore_Code
Thanks to all who responded with leads for rivets. While there turned
out to be more than one source, I ended up getting them from Reeves.
Finalized my order by email on the 10th. They got here today (the
15th). Pretty great service if you ask me. Don't let that big pond
deter you from
Harry,
Try Grant Line at;
http://www.enginetender.com/300m.htm
They list
Rivets brs .063rnd hd30/ 300-81156 O $5.85
Rivets brs .063con hd30/ 300-81157 O $5.85
Regards,
Tom Burns
At 08:44 AM 5/28/04 -0400, you wrote:
Try Grant Line at;
http://www.enginetender.com/300m.htm
Tom,
Thanks, this info could come in handy. Did you send this to Royce also?
He was the one who posed the original question.
Regards,
Harry
At 08:44 AM 5/28/04 -0400, I wrote:
Tom, Thanks, this info could come in handy. Did you send this to Royce
also? He was the one who posed the original question.
Never mind . . . I see it went to the list.
Regards,
Harry
At 09:02 PM 5/26/04 -0700, you wrote:
Hi Harry. thanks for the lead. I DID go to their website. And they DO
have a reasonable minimum order ($25) as opposed to Atco, who want $75
minimum. - Royce
Royce,
$25 is still a prohibitive minimum for me, I wouldn't use $25 worth of
rivets
Royce,
My friend Pete Olson has a stash of various size small copper rivets, when
I asked him from where he obtained such little beasts he said 'SIG' - I
looked at him a bit puzzled, the model airplane guys? I don't just look at
the train stuff when I go to the hobby store!
However, when I
Hi Harry. thanks for the lead. I DID go to their website. And they DO
have a reasonable minimum order ($25) as opposed to Atco, who want $75
minimum.
The ones that I have are square ended, so I believe they ARE rivets, not
escutcheon pins. The envolope says 3/64. It is this size that I
of them.
thanks,
royce in SB
Arthur S. Cohen wrote:
Okay Royce, We have the rivets here in Mexico City. They are sold only by
the kilo. They are 1 mm in diameter and 3 mm long. That's .002 bigger in
diameter. One kilo consists of about 49,000 rivets. Their cost is about
$320.00 a kilo
At 07:29 PM 5/25/04 -0700, you wrote:
OK. where did I get them ? I've got some rivets with a .047
shank and a .089 head. Can't remember where I got them. Would like
some rivets with a body of .038 or so and a head of .070 or so. Anybody
know where I can get them ?
Thanks, royce in SB
Okay Royce, We have the rivets here in Mexico City. They are sold only by
the kilo. They are 1 mm in diameter and 3 mm long. That's .002 bigger in
diameter. One kilo consists of about 49,000 rivets. Their cost is about
$320.00 a kilo and that is the smallest quantity they can be bought
In a message dated 01-01-19 01:08:47 EST, you write:
Any more great ideas floating around out there about easier rivet
punching?
You should have talked to me as I have also built a rivet punch. I had it
at DH and showed it to a number of people. Essentially it is two
rectangular brass
locations
on the sheet. You can lay out all the rivets on a complex sheet in a matter
of a
few minutes.
i have had great success in recent months using quark xpress, adobe
indesign and adobe illustrator as cad programs. all allow for similar
"array" functions. i haven't used adobe pagemaker or
Hello Everyone,
Most of the engine mods that I saw at DH had very nicely detailed
simulated rivets on them somewhere. I can usually get a very straight
row of rivets, but sometimes will have a couple of them that are closer
together than the others. My spacing method up to this point has been
Trent,
what you described is basically what I do, and Salty had a similar jig he made
for punching the rivets in his firebox sheets. I've found it faster, however, to
print out a CAD plot of my sheet and use it to align the punch. I use tape or
rubber cement to hold it to the brass and just
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