Ripley's T'nA repair thread

[ripley802]

Could something like this be modified to work or are those rivets hard? http://www.ebay.com/itm/6-Sized-11-Heavy...Swls5Y7Z1v

They are not to hard, prettythin brass. The trouble I have had with finding something like that has been that it needs to be able to open pretty wide to be able to fit over the battery box. I have thought and tried even modifying a "c" clamp as well as a regular had clamp but no such luck.

What I ended up getting was this:
https://www.ebay.com/i/122377846514

The cone shape tool works to sort of ream the rivet out enough so it stays in place, then the other can be used to flatten it down.