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Fabulous, what a lovely thing to have done, enjoy your new reel sir :Hat:

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Re: Mill Tackle Company

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He does make some very nice reels indeed enjoy your reel I bet you will miss a few bites looking at it admiringly :Ok: :fish: mike

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Re: Mill Tackle Company

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What a great idea, what a fine result!

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Wonderful.
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Re: Mill Tackle Company

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Deeply jealous! So Garry uses a drill press to press in his line lay pins? I guess that's why they call it a 'press' and not a bench drill?

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Re: Mill Tackle Company

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What a wonderful gift. Lucky man .... now where's that list for Santa ....

Nobby, pillar or bench drills are not meant to be used as presses, as I guess you know really, but perhaps it's being used as a spin riveter (Duckett ?). If a riveting punch with a slight wobble on it is used with the drill rotating, the rivet is closed very nicely without as much force. It's not actually eccentric at the tip, more bent but on centre. Difficult to explain, but it works great.

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Re: Mill Tackle Company

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Dear Nobby and Pb845,

Sadly, I am no engineer and took in and retained a lot less than I should have! I hadn't done any soft metal work since Middle School over 40 years ago! However, the description by Pb845 matches what I saw and did. The bit span slowly whilst boring a small hole in the solid brass line-lay. With gentle pressure, the outside edge of the bit turned the edges of the line-lay over to form the rivet. The trick was to do it a couple of times, checking in between each to see if the line-lay would not rotate any longer.

I do have more photographs if either of you are interested and would be happy to post a close up of a finished line lay if that would help.

I showed the finished 'pin to my brother over the weekend - he's a time served miller and turner - and he described it as a work of art!
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Re: Mill Tackle Company

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Now I hadn't heard of that before...my only riveting experience was with light aircraft..all dollies and air guns, it makes it sound so simple.

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Re: Mill Tackle Company

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Duckett, I personally would love to see more photos of your handiwork 😛

I think to be fair to Gary though, you probably shouldn't post detailed ones of his processes unless he specifically agreed you could.

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Re: Mill Tackle Company

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Pb845, my handiwork :Hahaha: ....... you make a good point about photos. There aren't actually many close-ups and Gary and his daughter-in-law (I've a terrible memory for names and am always having to apologise!) took all of them. So, I'll drop him a quick line to check. I took a real liking to him from the moment we met, so I wouldn't want to cause him any problems.
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