PADDLE STEAMER WAVERLEY – HERITAGE REBUILD – COMPLETION PHASE.

Riveting - The Movie

Here is a 10 second mpg sound movie of the riveters in action.  Watch as the white hot rivet is passed from the brazier to the work and hammered into place.  Click here to download - 240KB file size - needs Windows Media Player or Real Player.

The movie clip shows Brian Chapman transferring the rivet from the brazier to the prepared fastening point on the outboard edge of the bridge deck. He inserts the white hot rivet into the reamed hole with the domed head on the inboard face of the plate. Mark Coleby, the 'hauder on', holds the head of the rivet in place with a rivet gun, while John Damerall is at the business end with another rivet gun forming the protruding section of the rivet into the countersunk area of the plate on the outboard side.

Here are the riveting team ...

... they are from left:- Brian Chapman, Mark Coleby and the chief riveter John Dameral.

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