Rivited Aluminum bomber seat finished finally! Many pics.

Wow finally someone that knows how to make a bomber seat the right way. Great job!

 

this needs to end up en the tech section.

 

Those turned out nice. Good job!

 

Very nice.Here is picture my home maid alu bomper. http://new.photos.yahoo.com/tuunaset/album/576460762344467582/photo/294928803667289233/61

 

First cl*** work! These things would look at home anywhere. How about barstools in a high-end kitchen? The potential market could be pretty wide.

 

Rivet guns look like air hammers, I'm actually using an air hammer with a good inline regulator and the correct end for rivets.

 

mate they're ****** orsome, i tried something like it and ****ed but yours are orsome. o well back to the sewing machine

 

Very very nice!

 

Now THAT'S what I call modern ART!!!!!


Simply Fantastic

 

Grand mother in law and Rosie should be proud! Very Nice work!!

 

amazing work

 

YOU WANT A $ 1000 right ??????


I got start making these things

 

very cool...super nice pieces...good job man

 

Riveting!

 

Knock yourself out man

And to answer your question, no I don't get a grand for them.

 

that looks really good.

we need a how to post..

 

That's a lot of rivets,most people don't realise there are that many in a project that size.I'm a qualified aircraft ***embler,wanna try a wing?Great job!

 

those are awsome. You need any arms or legs? Someone "offed" perhaps? How much do you sell a set fer?

 

Love the arrow side brace, cool job!

 

Wow, the arrow-shaped sides are an awesome detail!!

 

Amazing work!!!

 

That's amazing fabrication I have to try that now I'm looking for a rivet gun.

 

I used to work in a semi paint shop, and we would rivet panels back on the side of trailers. We would always flip a coin to see who was on the inside of the trailer. Those seats look good, nice craftsmanship. Did you have to drill any out, and how many?

 

Beautiful job!!
Navy taught me basic riveting technique in Airframes for aviation structural mechanic in mid 60's. You use a rivet set dimpled to the head diameter size (I think Bratton's sells them to fit air hammer guns) and cut the rivet to length, if I remember it was the total material thickness times 2(?) so you'd have enough to go through the material and upset the rivet on the back side with the bucking bar. The heavier the b bar the less bouncing around. Flush rivets use a slight crown headed set in the gun. When you were the newbie in the workshop you got to crawl into the plane and be the bucking boy. Shame on you if you forgot your earmuffs!

 

The guy that posted this thread showed a lot of talent but he hasn't been on the hamb for over a year.HRP

 

I wonder if he put them on one of his motorcycles.......yeeeeha !!!

 

Hillbillyhell described it quite well in post 24. My job at Boeing at the Renton Wa plant in 1966 was "bucking rivets" on the window panels of Boeing 727's .
The bucking bars were/are blocks of steel that are machined with flat surfaces that are then polished smooth and flat. That flat surface is held up tight and square to the back side of the rivet so that the rivet smashes down and has very much the appearance of a short squarely cut off aluminum rod sticking out of the back side of the piece being riveted and all of the rivet ends sticking out in the line should be even in height with each other. I've still got a rivet gauge somewhere that you stuck though a hole and measured the thickness of the combined pieces to tell what length of rivet to use.

There are flat faced heads to drive flush rivets and each size of round rivet head has a matching driver of a corresponding size. The driver has to be held exactly square to the rivet or you usually end up leaving a mark on the rivet and have to drill it out and go again.

Looking at the seat I'd think that Hillbillyhell has had more than a little bit of experience at driving and bucking rivets before he started on that seat. That is one hell of a nice job done by one guy with no helper to hold the bucking bar. It's pretty well impossible for one person to do that by himself and do that nice a job.

 

Here are a couple of U Tube videos that might be of interest to someone wanting to try making a seat with rivets. The first video is an instructional video for riveting panels on an RV airplane. The second video appears to be a video used to instruct riveters of World War 2 Aircraft.