How to peen a rivet

Step 5 Finishing it off

Now to finish the rivet off.
flip the hammer around and use the ball end of the hammer to repeat the last step. easy as that.

now you know to turn a regular old nail into a rivet, pretty simple eh?
now go and start riveting stuff together.

Comments

[bahi]

Sometimes we got into complicated instructables, and we forget about the basics. I wish there were more instructable like this, covering the basics.

[Broom]

Amen.

I've peened rivets for years, and this 'ible helped remind me of some important basics.

Also, it never ever occurred to me to use nails... d'oh!