If I wanted to remove rivets easily I'd find a farm machinery dealer and
get one of the gadgets that takes the rivets out of mowing machine knives.
That's the long arm thingy that holds the sections, triangular pieces that
do the cutting.  We have one of these gadgets but I've forgotten what they
are called.  This thing presses the rivets out somehow.  Hey, but how BIG
are your rivets?  This thing doesn't do industrial strength ones, but maybe
some company makes one that does.  I think ours is made by John Deere.  Ruth


At 7:17 AM -0400 4/23/10, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:

>Samples for what? Increasingly I find out that we need to ask that
>question up front. Turns out for tensile strength. We figure out and
>discuss in the field that even with a less invasive extraction
>methodology that what we will end up with in our hands might not clamp
>into a tensile testing machine.
>
>Then this morning I wake up and I have a need-to-know question for BP.
>Do rivets work in compression or tension or both?
>
>Thnx,
>][<en

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