Girder handler's supply

Usage examples of rivets.

When the horns sounded, he buried his chisel in a chink in the stone floor, rubbed soot on the spots of bright metal where he had worn down the rivets, and lined up with others on his shift to file out of the cell for another day's grueling labor under the eyes of armed human guards.

With the cold chisel he cuts off the old rivets and removes the broken sections, checking the iron.

You could fill your pockets with rivets for the trouble of stooping down—and there wasn't one rivet to be found where it was wanted.

I said I could see that very well, but what I wanted was a certain quantity of rivets—and rivets were what really Mr.

Instead of rivets there came an invasion, an infliction, a visitation.

You could fill your pockets with rivets for the trouble of stooping down — and there wasn’t one rivet to be found where it was wanted.

I said I could see that very well, but what I wanted was a certain quantity of rivets — and rivets were what really Mr.

Several hours passed before the last of the false rivets was unfastened.

He sets the stock for the replacement rivets aside, and takes the larger rod he will need to fuller down to forge the hame line rings.

The plates here were curved and studded with rivets, and their sheen was silvery, a contrast to the rusty tinge of the iron sheets further out.

Rees fell onto his chest amid the stumps of shattered rivets, his lungs pump oxygen from the depleted air.

The stumps of snapped rivets at the supply machine's vacant mount reminded Rees of the sacrifice Roch had made at this place.

The chisel in his hand made almost no sound as he began the tedious cutting of rivets, driving the cutting edge of the tool methodically against the softer metal of the binds, using his free fist as a hammer.

He had sabotaged the shackles on his legs—had cut the heads from their rivets so that only the curve of their iron held them in place—and now he was simply waiting for an opportunity, a moment of confusion such as the arrival of mine inspectors, to slip away from his work gang and either steal away unnoticed or, at worst, make a dash for the ramp and take his chances.