Hello All,
I remember seeing a documentary about the New York skyline during the construction of the Empire State Building and the rivet crews who built it. One of the team heated a rivet up and then while using the tongs threw the red hot rivet through the air where it was caught by the catcher who used a steel funnel to catch the rivet mid-air. The catcher then passed the rivet on to the hammer team - Accessed 19th June 2021 from
New York Documentary - YouTube . I just watched a clip from a 1949 Glasgow shipyard where the catcher only uses gloves to catch the red-hot rivet as it is thrown towards him. Accessed 19th June 2021 from,
A riveting squad at work at John Brown's shipyard, Glasgow in 1949. - YouTube
Here is a YouTube clip from a bloke who uses similar furnace heated rivets in a small industrial studio. Accessed 19th June 2021 from,
Hot riveting process | Hydraulic riveting | Compilation - YouTube
Kind regards
Lionel