I have a lot of broken and missing card flags on my backbox relay bank for the King of Diamonds that I am working on currently. I bought the flags and rivets from Steve, but I am stuck not knowing the procedure for installation. Has anybody done this before? What procedure did you use? Bonus points if I can do it with standard shop tools, rather than buying a $100 tool that I will only use once. The rivets are tiny, 3/32 nominal sized.

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Well, this is what I ended up with. Not pretty, but functional.

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If you look carefully, I bent up the rivet on the side closest to the yellow sleeve, based off your tip. Thank you.

I bought a tool off Amazon for $12 to see if it would be any better. It did a better job setting the rivet, but wouldn't fit for the top rivet, due to clearance issues with the yellow sleeve. So, I made a similar tool from a Harbor Freight punch. It did a decent job. All in all, they look a little better than my original attempt.

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It was a flat bottom Harbor Freight job from the set of 8 or something like that. I just chucked it up in my drill press and held a file on it until it was the shape I wanted. The punch is black, but it is not hardened to any degree.