I've been testing that. I used some of my expensive rivets on a few and ordered in some cheaper ones to see how they will do. If I can get the load spread out over a larger area, it seems like it will work other than the additional time it takes.
I'm on the hunt and have been for that stapler. There are several versions of anvil staplers out there but they don't tell me what they will punch a staple through.
Oddly or perhaps not if you know me, we do not have any beer cans in aluminum here, nor do we have any other aluminum beverage cans to cut up. I may be able to find one or two cans of root beer long expired to use but that doesn't solve my problem long term.
I use foam now, it is a pain in the ass but doable. The bigger issue is cutting out the foam circles which is time consuming. I sped it up by grinding all the teeth off of a hole saw and spinning that as a cutter in the drill press. It worked well but was pretty slow.
The first bumper I ever bought just had a shipping label stuck to it. No packaging whatsoever. (This isn't a suggestion, btw
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It may be but at this point, the small diameter of the rod makes a normal shipping label which we are already set up to print too large.
I'm already doing that. I bought high density foam pool noodles and sliced them up 2" thick. Those go around each end with a foam disc in the bottom of each tube.
Forgot that I'm not the least bit worried about hurting the tie rod. I'm just trying to keep it in the package until it arrives at its destination.
Yes it is and now we are right back where we started with finding out if anyone has a couple of bags full of 3 1/16" and 3 7/16" poplar or pine wood plugs that are at least 1" thick?
I would have no issue doing that if the diameter was large enough for the label not to overwrap itself.The first bumper I ever bought just had a shipping label stuck to it. No packaging whatsoever. (This isn't a suggestion, btw
If I can determine whether the stapler would work, that is on the top of the list simply due to speed. My hesitation is we have an air power carton closing stapler to shoot down the flaps on the brake kit boxes. I shot the tubes with it on the overlap section to see if it would work for that and the staple didn't even penetrate the cardboard, just bounced off the surface and shot the gun up off of the tube. I then leaned into it hard and all it did was wad the staple up in the plunger chute and jam the gun.
we used a roofing staple gun and often cut wood plugs if we couldn't salvage a metal 1.
Solid would be best and I'll switch to that when I find out the end closure that works best. For now the reason they telescope is so I can put high density foam in the ends and then compress that by sliding the two tubes together by putting one against a wall and leaning on it while I staple or tape them together. With a fixed length, that gets harder but if I can get the wood end caps made it gets very easy. I'll figure out the tube length that works and cut longer ones down to work.
That is a crown stapler.
I'm familiar and we have all manner of them ranging from 1/4" all the way up to 1". That part is easy if I can get the plugs made. Temporarily, I may have to make some 1/2" thick plywood ends to drop in on top of the metal caps. That will spread the load out to the rim and slow down the deformation some.
