Re: NNG Boiler Repair - or "Riveting Fools"

Earl Wrote:
=======================================================
> There were 52 rivets to drive. In 8 hours (minus
> lunch, breaks, etc.) that is about one rivet in 8
> minutes.

They have a video on riveting at the Newport News Maritime Museum, showing a riveter going at it riveting hull plates up the side of a ship. In addition to driving the rivets, he was caulking them while still hot, and knocking the nut off the bolt in the next hole by spinning it with the corner of the chisel of his caulking hammer. I'd say he was averaging a rivet about every twenty to thirty seconds. They said that a good riveter was expected to drive between a thousand and twelve hundred rivets in a shift.