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I'm Bob and today we're going to talk about rivet washers
and installing, we're going to demonstrate installing a rivet washer.
I have one right here.
These are kind of hard to see.
Alright so, when you're going to use a rivet washer,
when you're calculating your gap you need to also include the calculation
for the rivet washer. The thickness of the rivet washer.
If you don't calculate that then you're going to order the wrong rivet.
Okay, so you need to include
the thickness of the rivet washer into your calculation.
I'm showing you here
what the rivet washer looks like
close up.
So you can see the circumference of
of the washer and how much more you get. You get about an eighth of an inch approximately depending on the washer.
This is a number 6 washer along with a number 6 or a 6-6 POP Rivet.
So this'll show you exactly how it's installed and where it goes.
So you don't take a rivet washer and put it on the front here.
It just doesn't work.
The other thing i just wanted to show you too, was a wide flange rivet.
So a wide flange and a regular flange, standard flange, you can see
that a
wide flange will have a wider circumference .
So the only reason that I could understand that someone would use a
a backup washer, a rivet backup washer
on there rivet would be for a couple of reasons.
One is the wide flange would be too wide
or they were looking for more support at the flange area.
instead of just using a wide flange rivet,
but that's up to your application that will
dictate as to which rivet you're going to use.
So now I'm going to install the rivet with the rivet washer attached.
So I'm going to put a rivet
inside my tool. I have the rivet washer I'm going to slide onto the hat
and we're going to install this.
So my hole is a little...I'm going to adjust it. Okay.
Let's try this again. Okay I'm gonna crimp...
I'm also going to install right now, the wide flange.
Just to show you,
i'm not going to put this on but i'm just going to show it to you that
putting a rivet washer for a 6, a number 6 rivet washer on a wide flange, or large flange, it just doesn't meet the circumference.
Unless you're looking for some type of backup to the rivet to make it stronger.
You can do that but I don't think it's going to do much for you.
I'm going to install this one right next to it so you can see the difference between them.
That would be without
a rivet washer attached.
So this is the one that is a large flange with no rivet washer
and this one
is the standard rivet with the rivet washer attached.
You can see how that looks on the side view.
Like that. Okay and then this is the back.
That's basically
the demonstration of a rivet washer being installed. Thanks for watching.
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