A specialist dealer in machines that are no longer built.

B&B Rivets buys, refurbishes and sells riveting and clinching machines, and supplies the parts, tooling and service that keep the ones already out there running.

What we do

Four things, one narrow field.

Riveting and clinching machines from makers such as Chicago Rivet, National Rivet, Milford Rivet and Parmenter & Bulloch, along with a range of orbital riveting platforms, are still doing production work in plants across several continents. Most of them are no longer manufactured by the companies that built them.

That leaves the people running them without a manufacturer to call. Filling that gap is the whole business, and it takes four forms:

Refurbished machine sales. Machines are acquired at auctions and plant closures, then repainted, given replacement wear parts, tested and documented with a tooling information sheet before resale.
Spare parts and consumables. Anvils, jaws, pockets and drivers, plus machine spares.
Repair and refurbishment services. For machines that stay with their owner.
Technical advice. Which machine suits a job, what a fastener change means for tooling, whether a press is worth rebuilding — decades of expertise in one narrow field.

The warehouse holds hundreds of machines in mixed condition, from refurbished and ready to run down to donor machines held for parts. That inventory is what makes it possible to answer questions about presses the original maker stopped supporting a long time ago.

At a glance

Field: Riveting & clinching machines
Makes: Chicago Rivet, National Rivet, Milford Rivet, Parmenter & Bulloch, orbital riveting platforms
Based: Canada
Ships to: United States, Mexico, Germany, Brazil, Egypt
Customer base: 400+ active and historical accounts across 15+ industries
Machine sales: usedrivetmachines.com

Reference

Condition grading.

The shorthand we use on our own inventory, published here because it is a useful common language when you are describing a machine to us or we are describing one to you.

Grade A: Refurbished and ready to run.
Grade B: Working, but needs cosmetic attention.
Grade C: Parts machine.
Grade D: As-is.

Contact

Get in touch.

If you already know what you need, the quote forms will get you an answer faster than a general enquiry — they ask the questions we would otherwise have to email you about.