bucking bar

noun

A heavy bar held against the bucktail of a solid rivet, which has been heated if necessary to soften it, and passed through the items to be held together, while a rivet gun hammers on the rivet's factory head; the impulses from the hammer, reflected by the bucking bar, then upset the bucktail to form a field head which is typically pancake-shaped.

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nounbucking bar (plural bucking bars)

plural bucking bars

  1. artsA heavy bar held against the bucktail of a solid rivet, which has been heated if necessary to soften it, and passed through the items to be held together, while a rivet gun hammers on the rivet's factory head; the impulses from the hammer, reflected by the bucking bar, then upset the bucktail to form a field head which is typically pancake-shaped.
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Chicago

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