Thread: Body Rivets

G'day Give me a couple of days/daze and I will see if I can find the invoice for the last lot I bought i.e. Round heads just like on the bonnet etc cheers [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img]

Gday Andy,
Why dont you try some aircraft maintenance companies, probably more of the light aircraft type as some of them still use them. There is a company in Jandakot, Western Australia called Aviall who I am pretty sure would stock them and be able to point you in the right direction for thetool to install them also. You will need a dolly and the rivet gun.
Shano 8)

Had a stroke of furtune I had a need to go back down into my workshop I opened the cupboard where I store heaps of stuff and there was the box sitting on top of the pile I got my Rivets from Coventry Fasteners Artarmon Sydney Ph 02 9438 3677 Fax 02 9436 0517 the price (3/2002) $80.85 per 1,000 3/16" Round head solid rivet or in their language 316x34ALRHSR hope this helps but now if you proceed you will need to make a dolly I use a 1" dia piece of Bronze machined with a taper then I profiled some tool steel and put the internal radius of the head of rivet into it's end for the hammer I use a Air chisel with a suitabley modified head to peen them over, but this is not suitable for all applications trial and error for a while in knowing how much to shorten the rivet being set too anyway all the best with it :?

Had a stroke of furtune I had a need to go back down into my workshop I opened the cupboard where I store heaps of stuff and there was the box sitting on top of the pile I got my Rivets from Coventry Fasteners Artarmon Sydney Ph 02 9438 3677 Fax 02 9436 0517 the price (3/2002) $80.85 per 1,000 3/16" Round head solid rivet or in their language 316x34ALRHSR hope this helps but now if you proceed you will need to make a dolly I use a 1" dia piece of Bronze machined with a taper then I profiled some tool steel and put the internal radius of the head of rivet into it's end for the hammer I use a Air chisel with a suitabley modified head to peen them over, but this is not suitable for all applications trial and error for a while in knowing how much to shorten the rivet being set too anyway all the best with it :?

that begs the question...

how many of those 1000 you got left after all them landies [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img]

great info btw!

I've ended up using a thing called a structural pop rivet. It is supposed to be stronger than a standard alu pop rivet. The head is taller like the landy rivets and the pin breaks off flush and seals. You only need a standard pop rivet gun.

RAR110

Sounds interesting RAR110, does it have the same blind head to it?? IE no hole in the back when it's been put in. I have a few regular riverts in mine in places, but i'm not really happy with the way that they look. Another option would look much better.

Thanks for all the information. I can now start the long slow process of replacing "bodged" with new! Andy [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img]