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Steel for Backriveting Plate
- Thread starter Chofrock
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SmittysRV
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I got my 1/4 inch steel plate from Home Depot. I also built a board to hold it in place while backriveting. I've finished all my backriveting on my RV-9A now and found what I came up with to work quite well. Check out the link:
http://www.smittysrv.com/more_stuff.asp?ID=46
http://www.smittysrv.com/more_stuff.asp?ID=46
esjacoby77
Well Known Member
It's not local, but check out onlinemetals.com. You can get any dimensions you want, and I've found that their prices + shipping beat home depot by quite a bit. I bought cold rolled steel from them to use as a back rivet plate. The finish was very smooth...I didn't need to do anything to it.
Greg Arehart
Well Known Member
Go to your local surplus store or junkyard and you can probably find something that will work at a reasonable price. Particularly if they have any old farm or construction machinery parts.
greg
greg
cdmiller
Well Known Member
Steel plate works fine...
I bought a piece of "scrap" steel plate from the Steel Yard on Columbia Blvd for a very reasonable price. It is about 1/2 inch thick and about 20" x 30". It took some effort with a belt sander with progressively finer grades of sandpaper to smooth and polish the irregularities on one side to get a nice smooth surface for back riveting. Works very well. I built two RV-8s with it. I am not sure that you need a back-riveting plate any larger than mine. Mine is heavy but still portable if I need to move it; anything much larger would have to stay in one place.
Dan Miller
RV-8 N3TU 730 hours
I bought a piece of "scrap" steel plate from the Steel Yard on Columbia Blvd for a very reasonable price. It is about 1/2 inch thick and about 20" x 30". It took some effort with a belt sander with progressively finer grades of sandpaper to smooth and polish the irregularities on one side to get a nice smooth surface for back riveting. Works very well. I built two RV-8s with it. I am not sure that you need a back-riveting plate any larger than mine. Mine is heavy but still portable if I need to move it; anything much larger would have to stay in one place.
Dan Miller
RV-8 N3TU 730 hours
randyintejas
Well Known Member
steel plate
I picked this up today at a steel yard. 1/4 inch X 6" X 4' and had them cut it in half all for $15.00
Cleaned of the slag from the torch, rounded the corners/ends and started cleaning one up
I picked this up today at a steel yard. 1/4 inch X 6" X 4' and had them cut it in half all for $15.00
Cleaned of the slag from the torch, rounded the corners/ends and started cleaning one up
Doug Lewis
Well Known Member
Are the minor pits in the top a concern? I've got a new clean piece of 3/8" but there is some small pits that look like they were in there from manufacturing.
kentb
Well Known Member
No....
I think that the liquid inside is used as a lubricant to make the polishing of the steel go quicker.
Kent
I think that the liquid inside is used as a lubricant to make the polishing of the steel go quicker.
Kent
Allen231ah
Well Known Member
I used a 1/2 x 6 x 24 piece of plate . With a router i cut down into the work table 1/2 inch and inserted the plate so it was flush with the surface of the table top . Makes it easy to move the parts across the surface without a speed bump under the part.
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