Dimple Die's?

[area51caraudio]

Does anyone use, know how to get, or have the ability to make small dimple dies? , I'm considering using some for a scale type build for strenght and also just for the "cool" factor.

[Wrecker]

Buy a machine bolt and nut, what ever size you want the hole to be, this one is a 1/4". Drill out the top of the nut so it is tapered, then drill a hole and bolt the nut on really hard and you've got a dimple died hole. Super cheap too.



Here's an example of some I did on a tuber I built.

Spyder Customs Bruiser Tuber

[Slowkrawl]

Someone explain to me what this is for?

[area51caraudio]

Originally Posted by wrecker

Buy a machine bolt and nut, what ever size you want the hole to be, this one is a 1/4". Drill out the top of the nut so it is tapered, then drill a hole and bolt the nut on really hard and you've got a dimple died hole. Super cheap too.



Here's an example of some I did on a tuber I built.

Spyder Customs Bruiser Tuber

Thanks, wrecker, I was trying to think along these lines but the ideas I had in my head were alot more complicated

[area51caraudio]

Originally Posted by Slowkrawl

Someone explain to me what this is for?

slowkrawl: it takes a piece of flat sheetmetal and by "dimpling" it it gives it some rigidity so that it doesent flex, they use it on real 1:1's, and race cars and you even see it on some street cars usually on the rear axle of a small front wheel drive car

[Slowkrawl]

Originally Posted by area51caraudio

slowkrawl: it takes a piece of flat sheetmetal and by "dimpling" it it gives it some rigidity so that it doesent flex, they use it on real 1:1's, and race cars and you even see it on some street cars usually on the rear axle of a small front wheel drive car

Ohh. I can't picture anything I have seen this on, but the concept makes sense. Thanks!

[BigRocks]

Good thinkin Wrecker.

[Wrecker]

Originally Posted by BigRocks

Good thinkin Wrecker.

Thanks, but I wasn't the one to come up with it. It was posted in somebodies scaler build thread a loooooong time ago.

[blue-beard]

Damn thats a really cool idea! Dimple Die holes always look so bad ass on 1:1 rigs, this is a great easy way to add them to rc.

[jsudar]

yardstore.com is an aircraft building supply place and they sell little tiny dimple dies. They are about $15 for one, so the countersunk bolt trick is cheaper, but these would be the most repeatable results. Plus, you can get them for many different hole sizes. Here is a link to the 3/16 size:

http://www.yardstore.com/browse.cfm/4,3710.html

[Rok_Dok]

yea but the ones posted at yardstore require a specialized tool to put them in with

[area51caraudio]

Originally Posted by jsudar

yardstore.com is an aircraft building supply place and they sell little tiny dimple dies. They are about $15 for one, so the countersunk bolt trick is cheaper, but these would be the most repeatable results. Plus, you can get them for many different hole sizes. Here is a link to the 3/16 size:

http://www.yardstore.com/browse.cfm/4,3710.html

Thanks jsudar : thats exactly what I was looking for, I have seen some sets but they were all too pricy, $15.00 isin't bad for one considering it would cost me more than that to try to machine one and I am afraid of metal distortion with the bolt trick

Originally Posted by Rok_Dok

yea but the ones posted at yardstore require a specialized tool to put them in with

rok dok these should work in a small arbor press (little modification mabey) and harbour freight often has a small arbor press on sale cheap and I could think of so many other things I could do with it, or you could justt drill some holes in a block of wood or metal for the posts that come out the back of these and use them in a vice

[ON THE FARM]

I have used these before.
http://www.harborfreightusa.com/usa/...emnumber=93539

[kawgomoo]

I didnt see anyone else mention it so i thought i would.

http://www.averytools.com/p-857-pop-rivet-dimplers.aspx
Dimple dies in a variety of teeny sizes that use your pop rivet gun as the press.

[rckjeep]

I've been considering making one, but haven't yet & for $15 that's likely not to happen