Renovating an old pair of secateurs

[Wm.Traynor]

Sharpened the blade first which involved taking the thing apart. Well, it wasn't strictly necessary but the look of a rivet displeased my eye, so out it came. Sharpening was awkward but a breeze really but making a new rivet was a mission
Finding a piece of hollow brass was a piece of luck, however but the rest required a bit of ingenuity. A dremel was used to cut the 1/32" tube down the middle for a distance of 1/8". Spreading the halves made one end of the rivet. To achieve that result meant that somehow the tube had to be held securely buy not so securely that it was damaged. A pair of pliers was consideed to forceful.
Therefore, a hole big enough to accomodate the OD of the tube, was drilled in aluminium, to a depth that allowed the dremelled end to poke out its full depth. The the end was spread to become the head of a rivet.
Following the spreading, the tube was dremell to a length while located in the rivet hole of the secateurs. Then a slot was dremelled from that shortened end, the parts were separated and tapped down to form the second head of the rivet.

And it works beautifully

[Die Judicii]

Gee,,,,,,,, you seemingly went about that the haaaaaaaaard way.
Why didn't you simply get or make a piece of brass/bronze/aluminium rod the right diameter,,,,,,,, cut it to length,,,,,, slip it in,,,,,, and pene each end carefully so as to hold everything in place,,,, but not so much as to bind everything up

[deye243]

I was going to make a bit of a statement but these are my secateurs I have a very clean yard and a very warm house.
Oops I also have a 261 that's not in the pic coz it's in the lux .

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[Wm.Traynor]

Gee,,,,,,,, you seemingly went about that the haaaaaaaaard way.
Why didn't you simply get or make a piece of brass/bronze/aluminium rod the right diameter,,,,,,,, cut it to length,,,,,, slip it in,,,,,, and pene each end carefully so as to hold everything in place,,,, but not so much as to bind everything up

Die Judicii,
Where the hell were you when I needed you

[Wm.Traynor]

I was going to make a bit of a statement but these are my secateurs I have a very clean yard and a very warm house.
Oops I also have a 261 that's not in the pic coz it's in the lux .

Screenshot_20241129_042843_Gallery_copy_768x1647.jpg

Noted for future reference thanks deye. I have a bush, four actually, that all need trimming, so something like that would be handy

[Die Judicii]

Gee,,,,,,,, you seemingly went about that the haaaaaaaaard way.
Why didn't you simply get or make a piece of brass/bronze/aluminium rod the right diameter,,,,,,,, cut it to length,,,,,, slip it in,,,,,, and pene each end carefully so as to hold everything in place,,,, but not so much as to bind everything up

Die Judicii,
Where the hell were you when I needed you

For a longer lasting job you could also use steel instead of bronze or aluminium.