Rivet Identification

[Richard S2Participant @richards2]

Have a box of old round head steel rivets which to me do not appear to be the usual parallel, square ended shank type. I suspect they may be for countersunk setting or for use on fixing reference or makers plates to machines etc.

These have a slight taper and seem to comply with Wire/Numbered drill sizes of 49 and 43.-

Would they have had a specific purpose?.

[Richard S2Participant @richards2]

[Martin ConnellyParticipant @martinconnelly55370]

They may be name plate rivets, not clench rivets. Are they hard?

Martin C

[Richard S2Participant @richards2]

Hello Martin, Thanks, yes I would say they are harder than the usual iron clench rivets when closing with a small Ball Pein.

The head diameters are 0.1250" and 0.1358". I suspect they are Plate Rivets as you say. Must be a use for them, as there are 1940 of the larger ones and 213 of the smaller size.

[Raymond Sanderson 2Participant @raymondsanderson2]

To me these look like 2 riverts which have been used before which didn't go in and have forced but didn't go in either misaligned plates. One seems to be off to one side wear while the other rippled along the taper section. They could possibly be also done during manufacture and normally discarded.

[pgk pgkParticipant @pgkpgk17461]

Posted by Richard S2 on 30/06/2018 22:17:25:

Hello Martin, Thanks, yes I would say they are harder than the usual iron clench rivets when closing with a small Ball Pein.

The head diameters are 0.1250" and 0.1358". I suspect they are Plate Rivets as you say. Must be a use for them, as there are 1940 of the larger ones and 213 of the smaller size.

I'm guessing the 1940 ones were in a box of 2000 and you counted the 60 missing?

pgk

[Paul KempParticipant @paulkemp46892]

More riveting than sheep………..

Paul.

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