Metal Magic: Blind Rivet Techniques

I really like your shirt..the Kitplanes logo in chartreuse is awesome against the blue (violet?). Plus, as a subscriber, I don't think I have ever seen the editor 'live'. Kitplanes is BY FAR the best homebuilt magazine; Sport Pilot is a PATHETIC corporate shill of a glossy rag-no ACTUAL normal homebuilder is re-building warplanes or vintage high dollar aircraft. However, EAA has some great features, articles when they have them, Hints for Homebuilders videos, and the SolidWorks student edition access. We are garage builders on a super budget, something the EAA at large has forgotten with their big corporate money, unlike Kitplanes, who actual caters to REAL builders. This video is a Great explanation of pulled rivets, super easy to understand and the camera work is well edited.

Pop is a name brand of blind rivets owned by Stanley, typically non-structural. Doesn’t mean they’re cheap - just use the right one for the right application.

anyone who uses a Cherry Max because they ran out of the other rivets needs to be kicked in the balls and given a black eye, their almost impossible to to drill out because of the hardness of the center core.

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Thank you, I found your video riveting!

Another trick when the rivet is too close to something to allow the rivet puller to remain perfectly perpendicular to the rivet head is to simply grind down one side of the nose of the puller - typically a hand puller as they're not nearly as expensive as a pneumatic puller!

Ha! "Im not going to pull a Cherry Max cuz they cost me about a dollar a piece." What a cheap date. Geez!
All kidding aside, this series is GREAT. Tony Bingelis would be proud. Thanks Paul.

You brought back memories of replacing Arctic Cat track cleats with my dad as a kid in the 70's. We would break (and even throw) tons of cleats as the northeast never got enough snow. Each cleat took 10 rivets and they were 3/16". ALL SQUEEZED BY HAND!!

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when are we gonna see air riveters that also pre-bore the hole with a hard tipped plunger ?
Air pressure is already there, it would probably only need a wider face, where the changeable proper sized tip plunger could be housed , and operable by a thumb switch that opens up the air access ,so the plunger can do its thing.

Great info but I wish you zoomed in more. No idea what the wedge looks like. I imagine it’s just a wedge that the tip rests against but would have been nice to see it in action.

Thanks for the video. I'm not a big rivot expert. I want to hang shower doors in a correctional facility. If I were to guess I'd say the doors weigh about 75 to 100 pounds. The hinges and door mount is stainless steel. We are currently trying to extract several broken stainless steel bolts. After that is done, I'm left to choose whether I want to rivot the doors up using a welder or some countersunk stainless steel rivots about 3/16". I dont know the depth I can work with until I hit brick, but I'm not sure if simple stainless steel blind rivots or structural rivots will do the trick on this application. If you were required to re hang heavy shower doors to stainless steel after extracting several small broken bolts (11 per door) what rivot and gun would you choose?

ou speak so disparagingly of pop rivets here. You know that the company POP is the inventor of blind rivets, the type of rivets.

Be sure to use a drill one size smaller than your rivet width, when drilling out rivets. 👍

hello thank you for your extremely useful video, I work in aeronautics at the moment I have to replace rivets NAS1398C4-1, my problem is, after riveting I can see through the rivets of some other this case will have rivets of at the stem this box is too high, my question is, is it correct when I can't see the stem after the riveting?

How do you decide which nose piece is correct?

Is it possible to use blind rivets for high-strength structural applications that leave a near-perfect dome, as opposed to a dome with an indentation in the middle, please? I saw some rivets in your test workpiece that had such perfect domes. Are they blind rivet types?

Hi, if we are using aluminium poprivets with a stainless mandrel, is that going to build electrolitic corrosion ? If al little water makes stainless connecting to aluminium isnt that going to slowly pit ?

Milwaukee makes a really nice M12 Pop rivet puller! About $200

Thanks sir