coupechuck
Plastic
- Joined
- Oct 8, 2005
- Location
- San Francisco Bay area
All,
This is going to sound like a very stupid question, but maybe someone else has run into it and has the answer.
I have a 1940 vintage 13" SB and it's almost completely back together. That is with the exception of the quick change gear box nameplate. The nameplate was originally installed with rivets which a previous owner removed by grinding off the heads. The delima is getting the body of the rivet out of the gear box casting. I thought that I would simply drill the body of the rivet out, but these are either the hardest rivets ever made or I have drilled through the rivet body and into the hardest gear box housing ever made. I've tried several new carbide bits, but they simply don't cut the material.
Anbody suggestinon? (I'm about ready to simply glue the nameplate onto the gear box casting, but I hate to think that a piece of 60 year old cast iron is going to get the best of me!!)
Chuck
This is going to sound like a very stupid question, but maybe someone else has run into it and has the answer.
I have a 1940 vintage 13" SB and it's almost completely back together. That is with the exception of the quick change gear box nameplate. The nameplate was originally installed with rivets which a previous owner removed by grinding off the heads. The delima is getting the body of the rivet out of the gear box casting. I thought that I would simply drill the body of the rivet out, but these are either the hardest rivets ever made or I have drilled through the rivet body and into the hardest gear box housing ever made. I've tried several new carbide bits, but they simply don't cut the material.
Anbody suggestinon? (I'm about ready to simply glue the nameplate onto the gear box casting, but I hate to think that a piece of 60 year old cast iron is going to get the best of me!!)
Chuck