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Hello Shael
I will try to answer your questions.
1. First you have two steel rods made of tool steel. These would be
about 4mm to 5mm diameter and about 4cm long. This is just a rough
size to give you an idea. You taper the ends of the rods to look like
two small sharpened pencils leaving a flat on the bottom. If you are
using say 1mm wire to rivet your hinges bull bur the end of the taper
so you have a half-sphere that is larger than the wire. They are
basically oversized beading (graining) tools. After you have made them
harden and temper them to straw yellow. You can remove the oxidization
on the inside of the half-sphere by turning it on a buff stick. If you
have a setters "Fion" you can use that to finish the half-sphere
before the hardening and tempering procedures.
2.When you have done this you should have two identical tools. You
put one of the tools in the chuck of the vertical drill press and the
other in the vise clamp on the table of the drill press. With the
drill going and both tools in line to each other. Place the hinge with
the wire protruding about three quarters of a mm each side (trial and
error will soon let you know how much to leave) and bring down the
drill press on the rivet. It should leave a nice burnished half dome
larger than the wire. Turn it over and do the other side.
Hope this helps
Chris
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