Headbadge Rivets

Hello,

I somehow ended up with this frame back in September of last year:

http://www.lfgss.com/thread34287.html

I say 'somehow' as I'm in Melbourne at the moment. Don't know who shipped it over but a quality move in my opinion.

Well the build is all but finished now (just building the wheels left).

The last part of the puzzle are the rivets that would have been used to attach the headbadge.

Someone had sprayed the frame before I bought it. They had also drilled out the rivets and bonded the headbadge to the frame : (

I've now got two holes where the rivets used to be in the headbadge.

I'm hoping to get hold of two rivets or rivet looking 'things' that I can bond to the headbadge. Just to make it look more authentic than the semi-bodge that someone else has done.

Any ideas? Anyone work at a frame builders and have two spare?

Cheers,

Alex

Failing this. Does anyone know which UK brands still rivet their headbadges on?

I've spoken with a couple of the old frame builders here in Australia and no one here has ever riveted their badges on.

ta

https://www.lfgss.com/thread45585.html

you could just buy a couple of rivets and cut the heads off them and clue them to the headbadge. I seem to remember my friend trying to rivet a new headbadge on but it turned out near impossible.

Try and make some out of brass wire. That would look more authentic than pop rivets.
might be worth seeking advice from a jeweller. (The older the better)

Whatever you do. don't use pop rivets. H Lloyd Cycles used to have them along with his transfers.

Cheers for the help.

I had seen that previous post but it didn't that relevant as I'm in Oz at the moment.

I think HLloyd might be a winner. I saw a picture of someones rebuild with those rivets, I didn't put two and two together.

The headbadge has already been epoxied onto the frame so I won't be riveting anything. I just wanted the rivet so I can cut them down and stick them in the headbadge holes where they should be. The frame looks like its come out of the factory with its new paint but the holes just look weird.

Cheers, I'll let you know how I get on. One day, when it's actually finished, I post the bike on here.

I found some tiny rivets in a local old school hardware store, was a but if s bugger to get any weight inside the head tube but got there in the end! Had to file down the inside of the head tube to get it neat.