DIY Copper Rivets

[@Hellsong89]

Note that if wire has been moved around a lot, it might be smart to heat it cherry red and then rapidly cool in water. Moving around work hardens copper and its cousin metals like brass so heating it and cooling will anneal it moldable again, so it wont so easily fracture as i have run issue with this kind of smaller gauge rivets. Just something to think about.

[@muhammadahmad1851]

Bro, please help me here .. Between copper and iron, which material is the best for rivets?? Thanks

[@onecrazywheel]

I'm an electrician. This wiring can all be sourced as well from Home Depot or Lowe's by the foot too. So know you do not have to find an electrician to get it. That would be the easiest place to get it. Great video. Thanks

[@ChristCenteredIronworks]

Thank you for watching And the advice ☺️

[@tinaknutsen]

Onecrazywheel; thank you for that tid-bit!

[@blesroy1090]

thanks I have learnt something I always wanted to..................

[@johnsanchez8029]

Dude your enthusiasm is awesome. And regarding what you said about a quick google search, I agree!! I’m 35 and was telling my gf the other day that most kids our age have NO IDEA how lucky they are to have the luxury of google searching; and it is taken for granted every day. Anyway, thanks for the help, bud!!

[@geofflewis4815]

Hello Roy, just looking at the video on Copper rivets I you want to straighten bent wire. Get one end of the wire in a engineering vice jaw, say 8foot long put the other end in a electric drill and gently pull the wire and switch the drill on. Go gentle and the wire will be very straight. I was taught this years ago working on suspended ceilings. Please keep your videos coming. Best wishes Geoff Lewis, Wales, UK.

[@ChristCenteredIronworks]

Great tip thanks! :-)

[@ronski50]

Are you drawing the wire through a loosely clamped jaws?

[@prozack1312]

To actually get some useful information, skip to 6:16.

[@drason69]

I've done many micro rivets on projects. 16 gauge or less. 'My' preferred method, is to anneal the wire, then clamp it in a vice 1/8-1/32 above, depending on head size. Then pein that end. I cut to length after, thus creating one head that is hardened, and the shank is soft, allowing it to pein cleanly to make the other head. Thanks Roy, I appreciate joining more than steel/iron in your forge and sharing!

[@OrcinusLaryngologist]

Sound advice.

[@argentumman7116]

Your preferred worked great! especially for a hard to reach placement of the "rivet" head peined first. Thanks!!

[@jimbobtheimpaler8403]

This is a great video. I have been doing this for a few months now on a few of my projects here and there. I am a total fan of the look it gives the final piece.

[@alekjuskevice]

Thank you, that was a great explanation, I’m going to try it.

[@baddogforge5181]

I've been using copper ground wire for rivets on my aprons and sheaths forever great vid

[@dheyderjr]

Great video and great recycling tip too. I used to do this all the time because I couldn't find the rivets I wanted. I am surprised you didn't show a set being rounded like a usual River though. Admittedly I used both methods though. Anyway, great video and thank you for your time and effort in your videos. You're a wonderful teacher Roy. God Bless you and hopefully you have a great day.

[@najroe]

just be aware of bimetallic corrosion though, I live in harbour town and damp salty air together with copper/iron combo would make the iron rust away Scary fast.

[@coffeesstudios2122]

Nice one. Have quite a bit of the old ground wire. Never clicked that I had a ready supply of pins and rivets. Thanks for the tip. 😎

[@honestinsincerity2270]

FYI a super easy way to straighten out solid core copper wire is to chuck it up your drill with the other end secured to something with a very tight grip, like a vice. Then just put a decent pulling force on the wire as you pull the trigger for about 20 seconds or so. Once you're done, that length of wire will be straighter than any possible method just hammering or hand rolling it out. It'll be straighter than a hetero sexual arrow.

[@judywyatt4790]

I bought a box of 4 gauge and 6 gauge copper without covering years ago. Still have and use it.

[@robertschaeffer5861]

very riveting video...thank you

[@minerblue9641]

Thanks for a great tutorial.

[@ChristCenteredIronworks]

You are welcome :)

[@jackpackage256]

Can you do this on leather?

[@vanderhoof5701]

There's lots of different guages of copper wire and sheet available at your local recycling centre. I pay $2 a lb to puchase from my local recycler.

[@DougShoeBushcraft]

cool. nice ideas

[@beautifulsmall]

have a brass rivet project , made an oak box with brass corners, the rivet length comes to over 5m of 5mm brass. Ill thke advice and frill tight holes.

[@brettsayers7768]

Excellent ideas, being a qualified Plumber I have worked with a lot of copper and found it easy and fun to work with, if it work hardened you just heat it up again.

[@ronthacker211]

Great info. love these kind of videos.

[@cliffwarmoth9070]

Thanks for a great video!

[@ChristCenteredIronworks]

My pleasure!

[@SSSmithing]

That's cool Roy I never thought about copper rivets

[@danielaruta8816]

So simple.

[@HealthSupercharger]

If i want to rivet on a shovel a flat bar so the step where my foot pushed down onto the shovel should I use steel rivet or copper or aluminum rivets. Shovel blade is steel, and the flat bar is also a 1/8th steel.

[@rogerdodger5415]

Thanks Brother! 🙏🙏🙏 ✌️✌️✌️

[@odysseus.mavrigata]

Wouldn't buying and stripping copper wires be easier?

[@gregmclellan6455]

Could you please turn up the heat...I'm freezing. Great video.

[@kbaxterpackwood]

what size hammer did you use to make those rivets?

[@javiercarrillo5015]

great idea!..thanks master!

[@FrancescPunsola]

Great idea!

[@JasonGarcia-lt1nw]

Great video bro God bless you too

Thumbs up, food for thought.

[@mymechanics]

Good stuff, i'll give this a try. Thanks for the video :-)

[@fahimkhatri2931]

6:23 thank me later

[@randallhackworth421]

I’m going to try it in leather for a keychain

[@beautifulsmall]

making inch and a half 5mm copper rivets . for a pirates chest, to form the first head was the more difficult rask.made an oil bath . a dry pin sticks in the hole . .

[@SableWolfsDen]

Copper grounding rods would make some nice sized rivet.

[@SillyPutty3700]

Copper ground rods are just copper plated or clad. I found that out as 1st year apprentice.

[@pmdoit]

You can buy wire by the foot at Lowe's, Home Depot, Menards and most hardware stores.

[@ENIGMAXII2112]

Oh my God thank you for that! You are a nice Chap!

[@GottliebGoltz]

Cool Heart

[@stauffap]

Beautifull, thank you!

[@humeanity2393]

As Salam Alaikum.... "well I never".... great recycling idea.... nice one Roy...

[@jayteehee6789]

Tandy Leather for copper and brass rivets and rivet setters. METALS 'R 'US and METAL Supermarket for any copper, brass, aluminum or steel rod to cut for your rivets. Lee Valley sells a two piece rivet - good for knife handles. Cheers.

[@grayem76]

riveting roy as usual roy

[@davidfricks2269]

Thanks!!

[@ronski50]

Great idea. I noticed that the pad mounted electrical transformer by my house has nice thick ground wire. Nah, joke.

[@priestleyharker4046]

Legend

[@gregbrown9271]

👍👍up Roy

[@bentoombs]

I like it.A little copper never hurt anything

[@k24m76]

ive always wondered if making my own copper rivets would be cheaper than buying them

[@marcs4738]

100% riveting! :)

[@judywyatt4790]

Find scrap and strip the outside.

[@tomrattle770]

Great video, thank you. But what does your imaginary friend have to do with it?

[@balsamforge4741]

I've been an electrician for twenty years and I've never seen solid number six. That would suck to run.

[@1bguyl]

Look for copper at a scrap yard. They'll sell it back to you at scrap price.

[@BeThouWhole]

Just go to home depot, get some copper wire and strip it. Super cheap

[@NateHail]

coppet coppet river

[@EX0BI0TA]

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[@jukeboxhero1649]

I can do that at my home forge??? Oh yeah? I'll do.it at your forge while you're at church and then the buffet after church. Whatchu Gon do ? Hmm?