What type of revit is the best to use to install a new socket, regular pop revits seem to crack the new socket.

George: I drill out the old rivets. Then use nuts and screws to fasten the replacement socket. Enlarge the rivet holes if necessary to accommodate the screws.

:What type of revit is the best to use to install a new socket, regular pop revits seem to crack the new socket.

You may purchase the original style rivets at your hardware store. You may purchase either hollow or semi-hollow units which are pre-flanged on one side. WIth the semi-hollow units, be sure that they are of the correct length, as you can only flange them over so much. Use a small round punch to flange them over. It should be round like the ball end of a ball-peen hammer.

Thomas

If you use "pop" rivets, use a washer underneath. This prevents splitting in most cases. The washer must perfectly fit the rivet. Pop rivets are made of aluminum. Don't know if this is any more problematic than copper or brass. I know that aluminum wiring in homes is frowned upon these days, though when I worked briefly for a biggotted installation firm, we used it for the range wiring, which would have otherwise been very heavy in copper. We used a di-electric grease on the wires to keep them from corroding.

Thomas

Thomas you are too funny...
Last week it was Mexican transformers vs Canadian transformers.
Today its.. a "biggoted" installation firm??? lol
... it was the firm?... not the people huh?... lol

.. I guess you are as strongly principled as you are intelligent. Go get 'em!

I guess you probaly try to do you part toward recycling too... no?
I was dating a young girl who always complained if I let water run while brushing my teeth. Said I was wasting a valuable resource... I used to tell her it cannot go away..it is a renewable resource and I was just helping to provide a job for the people that purify it..

True that. The only thing you are wasting when you run the water for a long time is coal or whatever they use for pumping the water. Years ago we had coal pumping engines. Now we have a coal power plant that feeds the electric pumps which pump the water.

I do recycle. I'd rather that they used glass bottles. Seems pointless to melt down plastic over and over again. This gives off fumes. Glass can simply be washed (I guess you do have to heat the water which washes it, but you wash the plastic just the same). It may take more fuel to drive around the glass bottles, I guess. Either way you use fuel because you have to drive the stuff around.

The firm I worked for was biggotted for other reasons, though. We won't get into those.

Thomas