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  • Fiskars Small Detail Scissors: Pivot Restaking

    The pivot on the Fiskars Small Detail Scissors (the name is larger than the hardware!) in the bathroom gradually worked loose to the point where I hauled it to the Basement Shop and whacked the rivet with a concave punch:

    Fiskars Small Detail Scissors - pivot restaking
    Fiskars Small Detail Scissors – pivot restaking

    Setting the rim of the rivet down a smidge tightened the joint wonderfully well and two oil dots smoothed the action.

    I grew up using these concave punches (I have several sizes) to set finish(ing) nails, but apparently real nail punches have a nubbin in the middle to engage the little recess in the nail head which used to be common, back when finish nails arrived well-finished from the factory.

    They’re not roll pin punches, either, because those have a different nubbin to support the inside of the pin.