Your support is much appreciated and if you have any feedback, please email me at Please note that for links to other websites, I may be paid via an affiliate program such as Avantlink, Impact, Amazon and eBay. If you find this post useful, please share the link on Facebook, with your friends, etc. Too much pressure and tooling starts to bend. The rivet swells inside the hole and and the end caps it – that is all you need to accomplish. You want to squish the rivet, not start bending stuff. Extend the little set screw enough to squish the rivet and clear the trunnion walls.ĭo not go crazy with the pressure. Speed will only help you mess up faster, especially if you are new to this. If you do, just bend it straight again by pulling it out of the jig, supporting it by steel block and press it straight. The longer it sticks out, the easier it is to bend it. Only extend the rivet arm the minimum amount necessary. When I make cautions, it’s usually because I did it the wrong way already at some point □ Make sure everything is nicely supported too. Make sure the rivet and your receiver are all nice and square and that the little cup is under the rivet’s head to support it. As you get experienced, you can buy rivets in bulk and use rivet trimmers but you might want to save that for down the road. If you go further, you are going to have problems. Just for example and to keep the math easy for me, a 4mm rivet should only stick out 6mm. A rivet should stick out 1.5x its diameter – that’s it. Lay them all out and identify what rivets are for the front, the swell neck rivets for the lower back of the front trunnion, etc. Wood is not your friend under high pressures.īe sure to use the right rivets – AK-Builder sells the best rivets and tailors them to what you are building. For the record – that one I never tried – I used 1/2″ steel plate from the get go. I’ve seen guys try so don’t laugh too hard. You need to insure the rivet jig is sitting on good strong steel cross plates – don’t use wood.
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