{"id":5565,"date":"2022-06-12T17:03:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T16:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5565"},"modified":"2022-06-12T17:03:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T16:03:51","slug":"restoration-of-a-double-leakey-rivet-press-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5565","title":{"rendered":"Restoration of a Double Leakey Rivet Press Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A bit of online research found me a photo of what it should look like so I set about cleaning it up. It turns out the handle was on upside down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By good fortune I had a couple of pieces of rod in my stores that would make a replacement for the depth guide. I had a choice of Nickel Silver or Silver steel so I chose the latter. as being more suited to a machine.<br>I turned a 60 degree point on it as looking about right from the photo and then milled a flat for the work piece to rest against.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next I went over it with a wire brush in my Dremel and I was pleasantly surprised when most of the surface rust came off leaving the painted surface underneath. I quite like the lived in look so I am not going to repaint it as I had originally planned. all that remains is for m to fasten it to a suitable piece of wood and hopefully to make some addition anvils for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0001-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"805\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0001-2-1024x805.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5560\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0001-2-1024x805.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0001-2-300x236.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0001-2-768x604.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0001-2-382x300.jpg 382w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0001-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Double Leakey Rivet Press Part II<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"778\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0004-1024x778.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5561\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0004-1024x778.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0004-300x228.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0004-768x583.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0004-395x300.jpg 395w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0004.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Double Leakey Rivet Press Part II<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/New-Out99999-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"973\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/New-Out99999-1-973x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5562\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/New-Out99999-1-973x1024.jpg 973w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/New-Out99999-1-285x300.jpg 285w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/New-Out99999-1-768x808.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/New-Out99999-1.jpg 1216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 973px) 100vw, 973px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Double Leakey Rivet Press Part II<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my searches I determined that as bought they came with 4 anvils whereas mine only has one at the minute. The good news is that a member of Western&nbsp;Thunder has one of these so I have asked if he will take photos of the additional anvils and get me some key dimensions and I will have a go at making some&nbsp;more. I recently scrapped a duff Compound Mitre saw that I had, had for 20 years. Before scrapping it, I recovered lots of useful bits of steel and aluminium.&nbsp;One of the former should be just right to make the anvils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bit of online research found me a photo of what it should look like so I set about cleaning it up. It turns out the handle was on upside down. By good fortune I had a couple of pieces &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5565\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-machine-tools"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5566,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions\/5566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}