Sickle sharpening questions etc Help

and then there is this grinder. part of it may be missing? Is there more so it will mount on a mower wheel or is it bench-mount?

To remove rivets: 1. Put bottom of sickle bar on anvil and cut off head with cold chisel. Then drive out rivet with appropriate size punch.
2. Have anvil with square edge. Put sickle bar on edge with back of sickle facing up. Hit back of sickle section with large hammer, shearing off sickle section, then punch out remains of rivet.
To install new rivet:
Put rivet through bottom of sickle bar with round head on bottom, straight part of rivet through new sickle section. Use face of ball pein hammer to hit rivet, swelling it in hole in sickle bar and hole in new section. Reverse hammer and use rounded side of hammer head to round off the rivet. Obviously, you will use rivet of correct length so the rivet can be rounded off flush against the new section. I did all this many times and was glad when I got a side grinder to grind off the old rivets. Was really glad when New Holland started selling those little bolts to use instead of rivets.

By the way, you can make one of those punches to round off the rivet by taking a 6 inch piece of 1/2 or larger rod and drill a shallow hole in one end with a new 3/8 drill just deep enough round off the rivet.
Hope I understood what you asked and didn't waste your time telling you what you already knew.

KEH

I just rembered about my rivert punch,you just get the old rivert out and put a new one in and let about a 1/8 of a inche longer and hit it with this punch .Its a special punch with a hole in it to set the head of the rivert it work great to also need a anvil to pound on.

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