Welcome back to Albany County Fasteners - Fasteners 101
I'm Bob and today,
I'm going to demonstrate the installation of a structural rivet.
Stainless steel, with this monster tool.
So I have my Norseman, my 1/4" Norseman
It's a new bit, gonna add some lubricant to it.
Then i'm just gonna drill some holes to
demonstrate the installation of a structural rivet.
That's one.
This is 3/8" steel that we're going through.
Two. We'll do three holes.
Amazing bit. That's our third hole.
So I have a structural rivet here. As you can, this rivet is stainless steel.
This is one of the hardest rivets to put in place.
Stainless steel does give you a little more resistance but not as much as everybody thinks.
I have my
bolt cutter type
riveter tool and
To install the rivet in here,
need to-you'll see it only goes so far in.
It's important that the rivet sits all the way into the tool.
And the only way on this tool, that the rivet will go all the way into the front of the nose
is by opening the arms.
So I've opened the arms all the way and you saw that the rivet now falls all the way in place.
I'm going to
insert it into the hole.
Now i'm going to crimp the rivet.
There's one and ... two!
Bam.
So it's a two-step process.
I'm going to do three of these. That's the first one.
I drilled three holes
and here's the second one.
So as you can see the first one pulls,
starts to pull the back of the rivet in to lock it in
and then the second one pulls the balance of the mandrel through,
and then,
once it reaches its breaking point it just snaps the mandrel off.
Then you get a flat surface.
And then I have the last one i'm going to do.
Now, I don't know if you heard that but
the pieces of the mandrel that are left over, are actually dropping in here.
Into this little cup and I'll show you once I finish putting this rivet in.
So you have to, to get that to drop and clear,
the hole, you actually have to bring the arm
all the way out.
So i'm going to slide the other one in.
Lock that in place, first.
So I put three of them in. All three are tightly fastened. This is a 3/8" piece of steel.
This is only for demonstration purposes to show you how this tool can install your rivets,
very effectively.
And then I unscrewed the cup
and these are the mandrels
that have been cut off after the crimping process.
Those are the three that I just did
and I'll show you a closeup of the actual rivet.
This is the finished side.
I'm going to show you now-just waiting for focus here.
Now, i'm going to show you the backside.
That's the backside. There's no play in this.
It's very, it's solid. It's in place and locked in.
So if you were fastening two pieces of structural steel together,
this is the tool, and you'll want a structural rivet.
There you go.
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