Control Wheel Rivets

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mike roe
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Control Wheel Rivets

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Does anyone have the sets for installing original type rivets in the yoke to shaft connection. The rivets are a solid steel with a hollow end that rolls over. I can get them thru Hanson Rivet but would only use them once. Maybe the club could start buying specialty tools and rent them out to members. Just a thought.
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Or maybe Members could donate little used special tools to the club?
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You wouldnt by chance have those rivet sets would you ?
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Mike,
It's been a couple of years but if I recall correctly I think I used the set from my brake pad rivet tool.
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I looked at those. I have a couple kits. The roll over set might work but I only have 4 rivets which are expensive so I would like to be sure. The rivet head will not except a Universal set or Brazier Head set. They look sort of more like a truss head. I might mail a rivet and my rollover set to Hanson and price the correct sets and see if they say my rollover set will work. Thanks.
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I've seen those rivets used by being set in a drill press with a rotating rivet set that looked very much like the set in the brake kit. I don't at all have a clue to what was used on the other end when the hollow end was being upset.
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