by "John Kunkel" <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Sep 5, 2008 at 10:14 AM
"mhorowit" <mhorowit@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:f87aa49b-0b32-4d5e-b964-b9fd3ca519ae@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> New to riveting here.
>
> Reading on basics show the impact on the manufactured head is
> transmitted along the rivet and forces the bucking bar off the
> bucktail. It then slams back, causing the rivet shaft to begin to
> deform.
>
> Because the bucking bar needs to move, does this mean it can not be
> clamped in a vice? - Mike
The "slam back" of the bucking bar is classroom theory, in reality a
vice-mounted bucking bar will make the same shop head as a hand-held bar
(try it).
Picture a bulldozer pu****ng a Mercedes into a concrete wall, same process
as
when using a hand-held or pneumaric rivet squeezer.
