Yet susceptible enough to be a rivet.

Put one side of the rivet on a piece of something heavy and steel, but
not an anvil... (This is a cold forging operation, and it would leave a
mark on your anvil.) Then with a 12 - 20 ounce hammer hit the rivet
around the edges at 12 and 6 o'clock with a medium strength blow. Don't
hit the rivet in the center like a nail. I would hold the snips in such
a way that the axis of the snips is 9 and 3 o'clock, so you're hitting
the edges of the rivet along the snip's side and not the other way.
(just a hunch, no particular reason for this.)

Test the snips.Repeat if necessary.

Should work. Wes

On Apr 20, 2012, at 7:56 PM, "Joseph Sullivan"  wrote:

> not very susceptible to pounding.
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