Bru wrote: > Quoting Laurence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> In our H&W Town class boat engine room the knees are marked HINGLEY, >> this is Noah Hingley of Netherton, guess the rivets came from the same >> place! > > Probably not in fact although the iron bar from which the rivets were > made may have done. > > The rivets would usually have been made locally from round iron (or > steel) bar cut to length and then forged with a head at one end in a > rivet making shop or works either within the shipyard or in the local > area. Rivet making was one of the many ancilliary industries in > shipbuilding areas
How can you tell if rivets are iron or steel? Our house (built 1933) has a steel frame that was clearly pre-fabricated: many of the joints are rivetted but others are bolted. I'm pretty sure the rivets were used to assemble part-frames off-site, and they were then joined together in situ.
