As in 'The Riveter'.
(I really shouldn't give such names to topics. It might make people look and then discover the banality of the content.)
Many of you may recall 'Spinster'...a spinning wheel model (finger treadle engine to you!) that I made for my oldest daughter who's hobby is spinning.
I have another daughter who has expressed a desire (jealousy?) that I make something for her.
A difficult thing since her hobbies at first glance don't lend themselves to an 'engine'. She collects movies and movie trivia. (Odd how certain threads run in a family. My brother was a big collector of movie pamphlets back in Germany and eventually became a well known teacher of cinema.)
Any way...I've come up with an idea...an idea that, while it appears to have little chance of success I intend to pursue. I made the mistake of telling my daughter the idea and she now has an expectation. I generally have no problem with failed projects...witness my several dead threads...but now we're talking a daughter. Double whammy. Female and mine. Had it been a son it'd be a different story. Know what I mean?
The project requires rivets. Very small rivets. The diameter being on the order of 1/32".
I've seen rivets available that are on that order of size but they are brass. Seems kind of hard...
What makes it worse is the project calls for riveting small hinges where the...I don't know what to call them...the part the rivet goes through...is also on the order of 1/32. Think of a door hinge where the fingers are 1/32 and there's only two of them not counting the middle finger
.
I thought copper would be a better choice but can't seem to find it.
Maybe solid electrical wire?
So what do you all know about rivets?
Oh...the project. I suppose you want to know that.
It's a model of an old-timey movie camera. No inner workings. Just a model of a two-reel camera sitting on top of a tripod.
Not suitable for this forum...but that won't stop me.
I visit no other forums so you have to live with me.
I have a CAD model of it but it's not quite finished yet.
Thanks. Or as they say in certain parts of the world...Ta.