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24-11-2022, 02:52 PM | #1 | ||
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I’ve got four of these to do, they’re window regulator guide blocks:
The back of the pin is heavily counterbored as shown, the receiving hole is not chamfered at the exit side. I need to make/adapt a tool to set these pins very solidly. Thinking of using a vice with appropriate tooling, to progressively deform the piece. Would I be better placed to form a bevel on my “setter” or a domed end? Dry or greased? |
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24-11-2022, 03:47 PM | #2 | ||
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Sort of like an eyelet making tool ??
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24-11-2022, 03:53 PM | #3 | ||
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Hadn’t thought about craft gear. It’s probably a few levels above usual upholstery or couture strength requirements though.
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24-11-2022, 04:08 PM | #4 | ||
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I bought one for canvas and is very robust. My old man had several commercial style ones being an upholsterer.
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24-11-2022, 05:23 PM | #5 | ||
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Something here perhaps https://www.birdsall-leather.com.au/...pl.php?pager=1 or something (likely a stud or grommet anvil) from a marine sailmaker or tarp supplier perhaps.
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24-11-2022, 05:35 PM | #6 | ||
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If you have an arbor press or hydraulic press some of the dies & dimple accessories for them should work too. These sort of things https://www.gizmoplans.com/best-shop-press-accessories/
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24-11-2022, 06:11 PM | #7 | ||
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.... or https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/27524996...Bk9SR6aJxoeVYQ or https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/29483649...Bk9SR6aJxoeVYQ etc
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24-11-2022, 06:30 PM | #8 | ||
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It’s getting way overthought here. Once these four are done, I
Wiz has indirectly furnished a detail, the setter should be closer to domed than chamfered. I’m thinking my big vice, a suitable socket on the “blocking” side and my improvised setter to the counterbored side. A sacrificed 8mm high tensile bolt should do it - the pin shank is only about 6mm across. |
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05-12-2022, 11:05 PM | #10 | ||
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Methodology, shown in a photo. I used my setter and a large vice to perform the task.
The plastic guide with metal pin, on the pin head side the guide’s cap snugly holds a quarter inch socket (shown with a spare guide). That provides strong, even backing support. On the counterbored side, the bullet tip ground onto my random bolt works with a little moly grease to spread the pin base as I clamp it all in a vice. I backed off the vice slightly and rotated the “setting tool” a one-third turn twice over. A much more calm-inducing approach than wallering away with a ball-pein hammer and the pin head precariously supported on a benchtop. |
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