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I’ve never worked with rivets before. In the 1.5 years I’ve been back into the hobby I’ve had the need to install a rivet 3 times. I was able to dodge that task twice, but now I probably need to do it. While one of our forum sponsors has a very nice tool, to me the price is high for not much anticipated usage. Would the general purpose rivet tool, picture attached, work for most O gauge tasks?  It can handle 3, 4, 5, and 6/32 inch size rivets. What my current task is is to install a collector assembly to a truck.  I’ve never had the need to remove a rivet, yet anyway.

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Mark. An anvil is simply something you use to push against. I use a piece of metal like a hunk of brass, aluminum, steel, whatever is close.

A proper anvil would be shaped to accept the other side of the rivet, typically a small dome like on a coupler rivet.

Google Brakemans Riveting tool or Paul’s (PE Design) tools to see what a proper tool looks like.

https://pedesignmanuf.com/?page_id=694

Pete

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Years ago I bought the Brakman's Riveter, it's been very useful.  I didn't buy the specialized tools for one or two specific locomotives, just the things I needed.

Sort of like this picture, but the two large chunks of steel I didn't get as I didn't expect to need that capability often.  I mostly use it for couplers, trucks, and I've used it for operating car shoes.  I also used it a bit when I was fixing Lionel O22 switches.

I notice their prices have shot up since I bought it, they're getting pretty pricey nowadays!

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