A Moment of Silence Please
by Jake on Apr.29, 2006, under Composite Works
My rivet gun has died. It has been with me for over three years and set rivets from Cleveland, OH to Key Largo, FL and countless destinations in-between including Virginia Beach, VA, Myrtle Beach, SC, Lake Lanier, GA, Lake Norman, NC, Lakes Hartwell and Keowee, SC, Lake Eustis, FL, Tybee Island, GA, Hollywood, FL, Pensacola and Destin, FL….It has been in service on my Nacra 5.2, Nacra 6.0NA, Nacra F18, and in heavy duress on this I20. As you can see, we have quite a history together and it’s sad to see it go. It did go out in a blaze of glory – setting in excess of 40 stainless steel rivets just in the last several weeks. With the finish line is sight, it dropped just shy of completion when the jaws broke while installing the last Harken pivoting mount…what shall we do with the ol’ gal?
Originally uploaded by Team Seacats.
August 27th, 2006 on 8:31 PM
I can feel your pain as i too have just lost my pop rivert when i replaced all the pop riverts on my old prindle mast, and i had had her for about fourteen years. I think the stainless steel rivets where just too much for her.
But what to do with her——- Just bin her, then she can join all the other broken tools at the tip.(thats a rubbish dump incase it is aussie slang).
Good luck in the upcoming Tybee, The vidio’s are just awesome, Hard to get cat footage like that here.