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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. --Theodore Roosevelt--
+1 on the spring punch. Harbor freight carries them.
http://www.harborfreight.com/spring-...punch-621.html
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A few months ago, I went to Lowes to buy a spring punch. Couldn't find one. Asked the clerk. He said we stopped carrying them. Why? Because they are an auto burglary tool. I said okay.... Where are your bricks? He never made the connection..... Home Depot had em for like $10. Used it twice before it broke.
“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
Thomas Jefferson
I've used both an auto-punch and a starrett prick punch + ball peen hammer. I feel like I have a little better control flowing the metal with the prick punch. YMMV.
The prick punch was around $7 on Amazon.
Two stakes is all that is required.
As far as punches, I made one out of a broken Brownells fixed blade screwdriver; removed the handle then ground and hardened it. I made it like a angled rectangle so it gets a bite on the nut and drives the material into the opening of end plate. It leaves less of a chance of a sharp edge than the ones I center punched. Ironically, it looks a lot like BCM's factory staking job.
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I've always thought about doing the same thing but never got around to it.
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