Field Riveting with a #60 Boyer Field Rivet Hammer
December 29, 2023/Historic Bridge Restoration/Comments Off on Field Riveting with a #60 Boyer Field Rivet Hammer
Another successful field rivet demonstration at Lansing Community College West Campus, Lansing, Michigan, with LCC’s experienced professional riveters who have demonstrated and trained many students and tradespeople in the use of the field riveting process. Students are given the rare opportunity to witness and handle a historic industrial tool used in the erection of many of this country’s famous bridges and buildings.
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Photo: Nan Jackson, 2023 Vern Mesler drives rivets with the #60 Boyer Rivet Hammer.
Photo: Vern Mesler, 2023
Heated rivet inserted in LCC rivet training fixture. Holder-on at right is ready to be positioned over the heated rivet head.
Photo: Vern Mesler, 2023
Jeff Seelye & Kevin Schraff remove rivet fixture. Scott Poe (Lead LCC Welding Instructor) is ready with another rivet fixture (upper left-hand corner).
Photo: Vern Mesler, 2023
Jeff Seelye & Scott Poe remove driven rivets with a rivet buster (aka Hell-Dog).
Photo: Vern Mesler, 2023
LCC student given instructions by rivet instructor Roger Morrison; Kevin Schraff sets pneumatic rivet holder-on; rivet instructor and rivet heater Jeff Haynes at right.
Photo: Vern Mesler, 2023
After every round of riveting, the rivet fixture is changed out and another one installed in the table fixture, ready for more riveting.
