best way of removing head badge rivets ??

JKT

Wore out three sets of tires already!

• Jun 20, 2014

• #1

has anybody had good luck removing the little spiral head badge rivets with out damaging the head badge??? thanks, John

 

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Metacortex

Wore out three sets of tires already!

• Jun 20, 2014

• #2

I remove the fork, then tap them out from the inside of the head tube.

 

jpromo

Cruisin' on my Bluebird

• Jun 20, 2014

• #3

Metacortex said:

I remove the fork, then tap them out from the inside of the head tube.

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+ this:

It'll typically push it out enough to get pliers on it from the front.

 

JKT

Wore out three sets of tires already!

• Jun 21, 2014

• #4

thanks Metacortex and jpromo !! it worked great !! although I used a cotter pin puller tool.... pretty much the same as the screw driver shown.. but pointed with a screw driver handle. thanks again, John

 

rustyspoke66

Cruisin' on my Bluebird

• Jun 22, 2014

• #5

This is what I came up with. Not super cheap but serves two purposes.
Take your rivet press.

Pull your dies out for your rivets then take a spoke nipple and some tape for filler and thread in a piece of spoke to make one of these.

Now its ready to just push from the inside out.

Works like a dream! The dang things come out with almost no effort.

 

Saving Tempest

Cruisin' on my Bluebird

• Jun 24, 2014

• #6

I believe my Rollfast had slotted screws, have not looked in a while and if it did I used a butter knife either way.

Not very scientific, but the same ones went in with the new blue badge.