![]() One of the students ask why not use Pop Rivets, the instructor ask the student “why Pop-Rivets?” – to which the student replied “much faster.” The instructor was probably 60 or so with gray hair decided decided arguing the point would be useless. The instructor had some solid iron rivets out and was going over the proper way to use a solid rivet. ![]() Posted in classic hacks, Repair Hacks, Tool Hacks Tagged brass, copper, hammer, propane, riveting, rivets, steel, torch, vise Post navigationīack about 1975 I took a sheet metal class, we got to the section of fastening two pieces of sheet metal together. Hackaday’s own did a wonderful write up about rivets in 2018 that you won’t want to miss! Not only is riveting a technique thousands of years old, its advancement and application during the Industrial Revolution enabled technologies that couldn’t have existed otherwise. We also appreciate ’s discussion of cold riveting, hot riveting, and annealing the rivets as needed. The simple tooling he uses makes the technique available to anybody with a propane torch, a vise, some basic tools, and a simple claw hammer. In the video below the break, goes into great detail about making a simple rivet die from a 5mm (3/16”) piece of flat steel, creating the rivet from a brass rod, and then using the flush rivet to join two pieces of aluminum. is always flush with ideas both new and old, and he resorted to using an old school fastener as explained as explained in his video “ How To Make And Use Rivets“. Neither glue, pop rivets, screws, nuts or bolts would have been appropriate. His goal was to join two pieces of aluminum that need a nice finish on both sides. In some cases however the right fastener for the job eludes us, and we need another trick up our sleeve. Various resins and even hot glue are equally useful. Screws, nuts and bolts, and pop rivets are handy sometimes. ![]() Whether you’re making, repairing, or hacking something together, we all need fastners.
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