Radiator lacing without a tool

Hoogah

Hoogah

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I've just bought new radiator lacing but didn't know about the tool that is used to set the rivets. (Wished I'd read up here first!)

Is it possible / easy / hard / really hard to fix the lacing without using this tool?

Those of you who've done it, how did you go about it?
 
i did mine on Lucy without the tool but then bought the tool afterwards and have yet to try it... go figure.
 
I just use a small flat screwdriver and spread the split rivet apart. Once I have it opened up then I take a pair of pliers with tape on the jaws and flatten the wings of the rivet. Works well but the tools is much easier.
John Poole
 
I did something like Don did above except I welded a "V" shaped piece of metal to the old pair of pliers.
 
Marco modified a pair of pliers by grinding in a pair of rounded pockets on one side. This way the legs of the rivet have a nice rolled finsih like the factory made.
 
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