Decent Scrap pickup, With Pictures

**mudlight2** · 07-31-2015, 11:18 AM

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[/URL] Hey guys. I havent posted in quite a while but figured id share this load i got with you all. It is some heavy metal! The pic below is an industrial riveter. Anybody familiar with this thing?

I also got these engine pieces and a bunch of other industrial metal pieces aswell as a window unit. Some motors that still work with
grinding wheels on them. (Not sure why but when i add a picture it goes to the top of the post. Ill just reply with more pics)

**mudlight2** · 07-31-2015, 11:21 AM

**mudlight2** · 07-31-2015, 11:23 AM

If anyone knows what this stuff. By all means let me know.

**AdmiralAluminum** · 07-31-2015, 11:41 AM

Nice score! We have an industrial riveter at my work. We use it to rivet 2 curled pieces of Al together to make a "scroll" that goes in between 2 post tubes to make a scroll column.

One of the motors may go with it as ours has an electric motor on it.

**mudlight2** · 07-31-2015, 11:50 AM

The riveter still has its motor. Do you know if they are worth something in the condition pictured?

**AdmiralAluminum** · 07-31-2015, 01:22 PM

About $500 used, but it will be a hard sell because you will have to find just the right buyer and might have to sit on it for a while. Try listing it on CL or similar, it can't hurt. Good luck!

**mikeorloff** · 07-31-2015, 04:43 PM

Good haul mudlight2; I'm sure there's a market for those old riveters. I sold replacement parts for punch presses, and one customer in Mississippi was running a press made in 1914 for the Ford Motor Company. Another press had been making chain parts in Ohio since 1904.

**Smf-retired-user-0043** · 07-31-2015, 06:59 PM

OP the riveter was used to affix brake linings onto the shoe or even renew clutch linings used on logging and commercial trucks the bottom picture is the clamp used to vulcanise a hot patch onto a tyre tube.

**mudlight2** · 08-01-2015, 10:18 AM

Anyone know what these were used for? They look like big suspension pieces to me.

**sawmilleng** · 08-01-2015, 04:10 PM

Aren't those the Ford front axle arrangement they called the "twin I beam" suspension?

Jon.

**mudlight2** · 08-01-2015, 05:53 PM

Originally Posted by sawmilleng

Aren't those the Ford front axle arrangement they called the "twin I beam" suspension?

Jon.

After a quick google search. It seems that is exactly what they are. Preciate the info.

**mudlight2** · 08-05-2015, 02:12 PM

Well to my surprise. The riveter turns on. I believe it only needs a new belt. Im gonna try and find one that will fit it. I really wanna see it work.

**DakotaRog** · 08-06-2015, 04:24 AM

Make a little video of it in action if you get to work!!

**Smf-retired-user-0043** · 11-19-2015, 07:30 PM

Originally Posted by mudlight2

Anyone know what these were used for? They look like big suspension pieces to me.

Sawmilling has it, those are from a two wheel drive Ford pick up truck, Twin I-Bean suspension.

**Smf-retired-user-0043** · 11-19-2015, 07:38 PM

Regarding the riveter, I may have that wrong.

Having a second look it appears to be some sort of a punch press, the foot pedal engages a clutch which now activates the head piece. Watch your fingers, when that clutch engages that head piece is coming alive and it's going to be very quick.

The larger V-belt pulley will have some weight to it, like a flywheel to store some kinetic energy as the puch makes that hole.

Probably used in a sheet metal or leather shop as in harness.

**MontrealScrapper** · 12-19-2015, 05:45 PM

Not bad!!

**billygoat** · 12-19-2015, 07:21 PM

Originally Posted by alloy2

Regarding the riveter, I may have that wrong.

Having a second look it appears to be some sort of a punch press, the foot pedal engages a clutch which now activates the head piece. Watch your fingers, when that clutch engages that head piece is coming alive and it's going to be very quick.

The larger V-belt pulley will have some weight to it, like a flywheel to store some kinetic energy as the puch makes that hole.

Probably used in a sheet metal or leather shop as in harness.

Just for the heck of it, I tried to search for that to find what I could. About the only interesting thing I could find was this:

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