bucking bar
A heavy bar held against the bucktail of a solid rivet, which has been heated if…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.
Meaning
1 sensesA 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.
Forms
plural: bucking bars| Singular | bucking bar |
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