Questions tagged [pop-rivets]
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What kind of rivets should I use to mount a steel mailbox door to an aluminum hinge?
My mailbox was recently broken into with a pry bar. The door is steel but the hinge is aluminum (or other soft, non-magnetic metal).
To repair it, what kind of rivets would I use in this case: steel or aluminum?
The original rivets appear to be…
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How to flatten Pop Rivets on the back side?
Pop Rivets and similar blind rivets are great for use where only one side is accessible, but where the back-side shows, the rivet head is not flush with the surface, just bulging out a bit from the divot made by the "nail" head.
Is there a better…
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How to remove sheared pop rivet?
A screen door hinge was pinned with a pop rivet. The rivet have sheared: I would like to rivet stubs embedded in the aluminum frame:
There is a second hole in the hinge and I supposed there is nothing that stops me from drilling a third hole.
In…
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Rivet gun not gripping rivet again on 2nd pull?
I'm using a (brand-new) hand rivet gun to re-attach 2 plastic pieces of a car bumper (there were rivets here previously).
The first rivet went in perfectly. But since then the rivet gun seems to push the rivet out whenever I attempt a 2nd…
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Info about this old riveting gun from West Germany?
Found a cute hand tool in a shed. Reverse image search suggests it's a riveting gun. One side says "Intern(i)et W. Germany", the other says "NZ-3". I'm not usually into riveting, however the name, "Internet" (or perhaps "Interniet"?), is intriguing…
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