Phase
box rivets/washers
Images and text by Garry
Harrison,
Head, Circulating Collections Conservation,
Indiana
University Libraries Preservation Department
Phase box
rivets/washers
These are used specifically
for phase boxes. Views from both ends of the rivets are shown in the
illustration. The "outside view" pictures the ends that will show when
the rivets are installed. The core is smaller in diameter than the dress
head and thus fits inside it. It simply expands inside the dress head and
locks the two halves of the rivet together when the rivet is bucked in
the rivet
bucker. The hole in the washer is aligned with a hole in the board,
on the outside (gray side). The core is pushed through the hole from the
inside (white side), so that it protrudes through the board and the
washer on the gray side. The dress head is snapped onto the core, the
flared end of the core is positioned on the conical pin of the rivet
bucker's mandrel, and the rivet is bucked together.
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