Various sheet metal rivets.
How to rivet sheet aluminum.
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You may have left dangerously sharp edges after cutting your sheet metal.
Blind rivets are made of two preassembled pieces.
Finish your rough edges.
This video shows how to install a pop rivet using a pop rivet gun.
Choose the appropriate rivet size and capacity for the project for example 1 8 inch diameter and 1 2 inch.
Both pieces are inserted into a hole and a special tool appropriately called a riveter is placed over the mandrel.
The tubular rivet body and the setting mandrel.
Squeezing the grips together causes the mandrel to be pulled into the rivet body which expands on the other side of the material.
Drill a 1 8 inch hole through one or more sheets of metal that need to be riveted up to 1 2 inch thick.
How to rivet sheet metal.