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2. Ball-peen hammer - Wikipedia

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   The peening face or ball face is useful for rounding off edges of metal pins and fasteners, such as rivets. It can also be used to make gaskets for mating surfaces: a suitable gasket material is held over the surface that needs a gasket, and the operator lightly taps around the edges of the mating surface to perforate the gasket material. [6]

3. Screw extractor - Wikipedia

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   A screw extractor held in a tap wrench. A screw extractor is a tool for removing broken or seized screws. There are two types: one has a spiral flute structure, commonly called an easy out after the trademarked name EZ-Out; [clarification needed] the other has a straight flute structure. [1]

4. Rivet gun - Wikipedia

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   A rivet gun, also known as a rivet hammer or a pneumatic hammer, [1] is a type of tool used to drive rivets. The rivet gun is used on rivet's factory head (the head present before riveting takes place), and a bucking bar is used to support the tail of the rivet. The energy from the hammer in the rivet gun drives the work and the rivet against ...

5. Air hammer (fabrication) - Wikipedia

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   In the 1920s, two pneumatic devices were invented that would permanently change the way metal and stone were hammered. The pneumatic rivet gun was originally developed to set hot rivets on girder bridges and high steel buildings. This tool was later scaled down for sheet metal, as the 1930s saw the advent of monocoque aluminum aircraft. The ...

6. Rivet - Wikipedia

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   Drawing of round head rivets, 1898 A typical technical drawing of a universal head solid rivet Riveters work on the Liberty ship SS John W. Brown (December 2014).. Rivet holes have been found in Egyptian spearheads dating back to the Naqada culture of between 4400 and 3000 B.C. Archeologists have also uncovered many Bronze Age swords and daggers with rivet holes where the handles would have been.

7. Metalworking - Wikipedia

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   The holes being aligned, a rivet is passed through the holes and permanent heads are formed onto the ends of the rivet utilizing hammers and forming dies (by either cold working or hot working). Rivets are commonly purchased with one head already formed. When it is necessary to remove rivets, one of the rivet's heads is sheared off with a cold ...