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Re: Help! Need Rivets
« Reply #15 on: 2014-03-19, 11:20:54 »
in a pinch use a nail. cut the shaft to length and peen it. i think they have "brass coated" nails for those brass carpet ends (where carpet and hard floor meet)

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Re: Help! Need Rivets
« Reply #16 on: 2014-03-19, 16:33:32 »
I tried that. It didn't flatten and I ended up destroying the buckle so I had to order a new one.
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Re: Help! Need Rivets
« Reply #17 on: 2014-03-19, 16:45:06 »
Do you have a picture or link to the buckle?
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Re: Help! Need Rivets
« Reply #18 on: 2014-03-19, 16:57:33 »
in a pinch use a nail. cut the shaft to length and peen it. i think they have "brass coated" nails for those brass carpet ends (where carpet and hard floor meet)

Carpet threshold strip; they do have brass coated nails. Revival Clothing actually carries some.

Clipped nails are a proper medieval item for some things. They are basically a thin-head rivet at that point. Some of my armor has nails in it; leather articulation straps in particular.
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Re: Help! Need Rivets
« Reply #19 on: 2014-03-19, 22:13:21 »
anel it then, it may have been "to strong" put it to a torch.

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Re: Help! Need Rivets
« Reply #20 on: 2014-03-20, 12:58:49 »
anel it then, it may have been "to strong" put it to a torch.

I'm assuming you meant "anneal"... that looked too much like "anal". ;)
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Re: Help! Need Rivets
« Reply #21 on: 2014-03-20, 14:17:03 »
anel it then, it may have been "to strong" put it to a torch.

I'm assuming you meant "anneal"... that looked too much like "anal". ;)

How Sir Wolf softens his rivets is up to him.... but mental note to myself, don't ask him for rivets  :o  :-X
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Re: Help! Need Rivets
« Reply #22 on: 2014-03-20, 18:44:55 »
I just need 4, not 100.

Maybe not at the moment but I am sure you will at some point.  I just came across this thread else I would've bought the 100 and mailed you 4.  At $20 that is a steal.
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