1918 Aircraft Rivet Hammer Restoration
In this video i m restoring an aircraft rivet hammer. This pneumatic rivet hammer was sent to me by one of my subscribers from germany, thank you for that. It s a very cool and unique looking tool, I ve never seen this tool before and that s why I decided to restore it and make a video for you guys. I was told that this tool was stored in the basement when they had a flooding, that was probaly the reason why it was rusty and didn t work anymore. I had a few ups and downs during this restoration. The cast of the aluminium handle was very porous and a lot of tiny holes appeared after fine sanding and polishing, also the welding didn t work quite well. I first tried to TIG weld, but that didn t work at all. For the visible steel parts I decided to make them black, for the optic and also as rust protection. My idea was to sandblast those parts to make a nice and even finish, but because I m using very fine glas bead all the small damages in the surface from the rust were sti br, br,
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