How To Rivet Sheet Metal Together

Insert a rivet into the hole.

How to rivet sheet metal together.

This short video shows you that no s. Squeezing the grips together causes the mandrel to be pulled into the rivet body which expands on the other side of the material. Once that is done a hole is drilled through the structure and a rivet is inserted in the hole it is held against the structure strongly on one side. Blind rivets are made of two preassembled pieces.

The rivet is driven by a pneumatic rivet gun with an attached rivet set shaped according to the shape of the manufactured head of the rivet. Both pieces are inserted into a hole and a special tool appropriately called a riveter is placed over the mandrel. For riveting the metal pieces that are usually very heavy need to be held together firmly. Drill a 1 8 inch hole through one or more sheets of metal that need to be riveted up to 1 2 inch thick.

Basic principles a bucked rivet is a round fastener that attaches two or more pieces of metal together. The tubular rivet body and the setting mandrel. Choose the appropriate rivet size and capacity for the project for example 1 8 inch diameter and 1 2 inch.