Cheap bucked rivets

[Lumatic]

Can anyone tell me a cheap way to buck a dozen solid rivets without buying expensive equipment I will never use again?

[Tim A.]

You can do it by hand with a hammer, bucking bar, and the rivet setting inserts for an air hammer. There are also rivet doming tools sold on eBay.

The setting inserts pocketed in a hole in a steel block can serve as a bucking bar to preserve the original shape of the rivet head.

Tim

[Foiled Again]

PRACTICE ON SCRAP aluminum first! Waste some rivets, they are cheap.