NEW - MINT Condition 18" Throat Bench Mounted Riveting & Dimpling ToolClick here to purchase or contact the seller of this item on eBay |
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| Current Price: 134.00 USD |
***FREIGHT WILL BE COMBINED ON MULTIPLE BAR TOOL PURCHASES IF SHIPPED TOGETHER ****
Just outside of Philadelphia there used be a Major WW II aircraft factory owned by Brewster Aircraft. Aside from having their one series of modestly successful aircraft including the Bermuda and Buckaneer, they had sub contracts from Vought and BF Goodyear to fab and sub assemble their Corsair aircraft.
When the Navy purchased the factory as a test facility in the late 40's it became the Johnsville Naval Air Test Center, which has since closed. But when Brewster sold the plant it also sold most all of the production equipment since the Navy didn't want it. When I started my binge of building aluminum homebuilts I was lucky enough to stumble onto a ton of the old equiipment through the esate of the Brewster purchasing agent - Mr. Sheppard. Among 3 tons of thse pneumatic tools and associated partsa tooling - I purchased bucking bars in 5 gallon pail quanities. Needless to say I have a tremendous assortment of profesioal / mass production aircraft fabrication tools and parts, includng at last count over 560 refurbished and polished, the most diverse assortment available anywhere in the world, with every shape, weight, and size to fit ever tight space you have ever encountered.
With these tools I have build a Bede 5 Jet, Brokaw Bullet and a Swearingen SX-300. Well I have gone out of the building business and spend my time now flying. So I am liquidating many of my tools. These bucking bars are the finest in the world - not just cast - rolled steel like the ones you buy today - these are made hardened steel, made at a time when quality was critical and they knew how to make tools. Each of thes bars has been sandblasted - painted with Rustoleum, the working surfaces milled in a Bridgeport, and then polished. You could literally shave in ther reflection of the working surfaces. Most bars have as many as 2 - 3 working surfaces , and if you want to add surfaces, just belt sand the new surface and polish it with wax or rouge. Your total satisfaction is absolutely guarenteed, less freight.
This tool for sale is a brand new, never used benching riveting and dimpling tool with an 18" throat for woring the middle of a 36" sheet, has a 24" OAL and comes with 3 tooling sets; 1 for flushing riveting, 1: with a std. 3/16 ( .187 " ) tooling hole, each of which are 9" long, and 3: a 2" extension with both a male and female end for the 3/16 - .187 tooling holes. The base tooling plate under the manual ram also has a ,187 tooling hole for flush or rivet sets. The height of the throat is 4".