Re: [CR]KOF: acknowledgement of points made / ensuite, headbadge rivetcall-fo r-help

(Example: Framebuilding:Brazing Technique)

From: "Steven L. Sheffield" <stevens@veloworks.com>
To: "tom.ward@juno.com" <tom.ward@juno.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]KOF: acknowledgement of points made / ensuite, headbadge rivetcall-fo r-help
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:04:21 -0700
In-Reply-To: <20050811.065520.17232.344642@webmail23.lax.untd.com>
References: <20050811.065520.17232.344642@webmail23.lax.untd.com>


On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:55:00 GMT, tom.ward@juno.com wrote


> Now, A QUERY. Many pardons as this may seem painfully beginner-like. Headbadge rivets: I remain ignorant of (or at least not confident of) techniques to re-install them, and even where to get them. Could we have a short discourse on the finer points of headbadge rivets? Stuff like do you use some sort of concave headed driver to avoid flattening the convex heads of them?
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> Questions (likely quite ignorant) include: so, do you just tap them in from the front? They have ridges on the side that somehow are sufficient to grip? You can't too easily get at them (say to peen them over) from inside the headtube....
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> Having revealed my ignorance (but good intentions) regarding headbadge rivets, can anyone help? E-mails both on-list and off-list will be welcomed--particularly any info on the added-length rivets needed for that Peugeot.

Ever thought of headbadge SCREWS?

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