On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 09:01:54 -0800, Roger rlrsk8r at hot mail wrote:

I am building one of those E-E-EVIL AK47s and as mentioned, metric
rivets are a buck apiece for them. The rivets are either 4.0mm
(0.157) or 4.5mm (0.177), depending on which part of the gun.

Guns are neutral. Guns are just a lump of metal, they don't go off
by themselves. People are either good or evil, they are the ones
that decide where to point the gun, and when to fire.

If you want to go down that road, cars are far more deadly than guns
but you don't see people moving to ban all cars.

Hell, Dihydrogen Monoxide is more dangerous than guns... ;-P

I decided I would change all the rivets to 3/16 (0.187) but the heads
are a bit oversize (by maybe 0.100) and they look out of place.
Besides, people who know AKs will look at the gun and barf.

Consequently, I plan to put the rivet heads on a diet to hide what
I've done. So what I need to make is a cutting bit to reduce the
diamater of the head. I can make it but I need to know what kind of
steel I should use for machineability and then be able to heat treat
it so I can cut 1006 mild steel.

Yeah, it IS small stuff but it's something I just "HAVE TO DO", if you
get my drift. We all know how us hobbyists are.

Okay, it's an appearance critical item. Carry on...

Though you might try to source the right rivets for the right price,
before you go through all the effort of cutting oversize heads down.

Even if you have to buy bulk and import them yourself, you can pack
the extras in bags of 50 or 100 and resell them on E-Bay. You can buy
them for a few pennies in bulk and resell them for 50c, and still be
well under the guys charging $1 each.

-- Bruce --

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